Peters, Rudolph Albert (1889-1982): British Anti-Lewisite (BAL) and treatment of post-arsphenamine jaundice

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/197
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Peters, Rudolph Albert (1889-1982): British Anti-Lewisite (BAL) and treatment of post-arsphenamine jaundice
Date(s)	: 1941-1953
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 4 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Peters | Sir | Rudolph Albert | 1889-1982 | Knight | biochemist
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Professor R A Peters including reports, correspondence, minutes, etc, relating to work on antidotes to chemical warfare agents, development of British Anti-Lewisite, and its clinical uses, 1941-1953.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Index to correspondents. Arranged in two sections:
A. BAL (British Anti-Lewisite), 1941-1953.
B. Arsphenamine jaundice and methionine, 1943-1945

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Collection transferred to Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in July 1996 along with other materials from Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford, where they had been received c September 1991. It is not known who placed them there.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Additional Peters material in PP/HBF, PP/MEL, PP/PBM, SA/PHY, SA/SRL.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2009