Samuel Lodge Collection
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Samuel Lodge Collection
Classmark: MS 2061
Creator(s): Lodge, Samuel (1867-1934)()
Date(s): 1878-1889
Language: English; French
Size and medium: 2 papers; 1 photograph
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/608667
Collection group(s): Medical Collections
Description
Comprises of:
A letter to Samuel Lodge from Sir James Paget (1814-1899), first baronet and surgeon, relating to the death of a patient, 23 Oct 1878. Paget's name is linked with a number of different medical syndromes, including Paget's disease of the bone.
Also includes a grant of travel awarded to Samuel Lodge Junior from the Foreign Office, to allow travel to Europe, dated 15 June 1889. Signed by Lodge and the Marquess of Salisbury.
A signed, sepia photograph of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), printed onto card. The reverse has the date 1878, Paris, and has some additional printed text in French, including 'Médaille D'Or Exposition Universelle 1878'. Exposition Universelle in 1878 was the third Paris World Fair. Pasteur was a French chemist who developed germ theory and vaccinations for anthrax and rabies.
The items were housed in an envelope which has notes on the provenance of the photograph and travel grant. According to the envelope notes, Samuel Lodge accompanied a number of patients suffering from rabies to the Hospital of St Orn in Paris in order to receive the vaccine given by Louis Pasteur. Pasteur gave the signed photograph to Lodge during this trip.
Biography or history
Samuel Lodge Junior was a medical practitioner from Bradford, who was involved in work on anthrax, also known as 'woolsorter's disease'.
Source: James F Stark, The Making of Modern Anthrax, 1875-1920: Uniting Local, National and Global Histories of Disease (Routledge, London: 2016).
Provenance
These items were deposited with the Library in February 1985.
Access and usage
Access
This collection is fully accessible and not subject to protection under the Data Protection Act
Physical and technical conditions
Some foxing on the photograph.