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Total number of records: 332

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items312
Archives19
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection29
Cookery Collection14
Leeds Russian Archive8
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society6
English Literature4
Herbert Read Collection3
Medical Collections2
University Art Collection1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Quaker Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
medicine332
surgery24
jews8
cooking8
recipes8
physicians7
biography5
occasional sermons5
aneurysm4
gastrointestinal diseases4

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PlaceCount
Soviet Union2
United States1
Stratford-Upon-Avon (England)1
Middle East1
Israel1
Jerusalem (Israel)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Kuhn, Karl Gottlob (1754-1840)24
Kuhn, Karl Gottlob24
Assmann, Friedrich Wilhelm (1800-)22
Assmann, Friedrich Wilhelm22
Galen22
Andral, Gabriel (1797-1876)18
Blandin, Philippe Frederic (1798-1849)15
Andral, Gabriel15
Begin, Louis Jacques (1793-1859)15
Begin, Louis Jacques15

Count of Earliest date

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From 1800256
From 190075
From 20001

Count of Latest date

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Up to 1899253
Up to 199976
Up to latest3

Archive Collection

Leigh Hunt, correspondence and related material

Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)

1851-1952

Correspondence: (1) 18 autograph letters from Leigh Hunt to George Bird, 24 June 1851-31 October 1852, concerning medical matters; (2) 1 typewritten letter from Dr Cedric Keith Simpson to Dr E. Clayto...

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Archive Sub-collection

ANGLO-RUSSIAN HOSPITAL

[1916?]

Postcards showing: staff and patients of the Anglo-Russian Hospital, Petrograd /1-4/; Anglo-Russian Hospital motor ambulance unit /5/; Russian soldiers and refugees, WWI /6-17/.

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Archive Sub-collection

HARMER Collection

1898-2000

Modern prints of photographs of: Anglo-Russian Hospital, Petrograd, 1915-1917 (group photographs of staff and visitors include Sir George Buchanan, Lady Sybil Grey, Lady Muriel Paget and members of th...

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Archive File

Dr Brady's case book, compiled by Jonathan Hutchinson.

Hutchinson, Jonathan

1846-1847

Comprises a record of cases seen during 1846 and 1847, while Hutchinson was a student at York medical school.

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Archive File

Archive File

Notes on old cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1925

The main manuscript contains five chapters devoted to old cookery books of particular interest, as follows: (1) ff.4-16: Ann Wallis: 1673; (2) ff.17-37: Mrs Windham: 1710; (3) ff. 38-60: Captain Thoma...

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Archive File

An alphabetical author catalogue of the library of old books on alchemy, chemistry and medicine collected by Alfred Chaston Chapman

Chaston Chapman, Alfred (1869-1932)

c.1901-1925

Contents: (1) authors, A-F, (2) authors, G-O, (3) authors, P-Z, and modern works on the history of chemistry, on the Royal Society and on brewing and distilling

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Chemotherapeutic work at Leeds, 1919-1932, [a reminiscence] by Samuel Ellingworth

Ellingworth, Samuel

c.1936

Lacks the references indicated in the text

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A commonplace book of Mary Cowgill containing mainly notes on astronomical, medical and natural history topics

Cowgill, Mary

c.1801-1850

Contents include: (1) a plan of York Minster (f.33) and local topographical notes on Malham Cove, Whernside, Ingleborough, Pen-y-Ghent and Pendle Hill (ff.40v-41); (2) financial accounts dated 1838 on...

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1805

At one end of the book are cookery receipts, medicinal remedies, and instructions for general household management, preceded at the beginning by a poem in a later hand and, after some blank pages, an ...

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

1825

A collection of cookery recipes, notes on household management, and medical remedies

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Cookery book
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Cookery book

c.1847

A collection of cookery and medicinal recipes

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