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Total number of records: 1089

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Books and printed items977
Archives111
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Cookery Collection136
Brotherton Collection81
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture64
Leeds Russian Archive52
Ripon Cathedral12
Medical Collections9
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society9
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections7
Incunabula6
Liddle Collection5

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medicine615
military medicine84
traditional medicine72
health65
medicine, popular65
well-being64
cooking58
cooking, english57
surgery46
culture46

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Great Britain10
Greece3
Soviet Union2
Italy2
Belgium2
United States2
Lyon (France)1
Marcelcave (France)1
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew1
Stratford-Upon-Avon (England)1

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People and organisationsCount
Galen39
Kuhn, Karl Gottlob25
Kuhn, Karl Gottlob (1754-1840)25
Assmann, Friedrich Wilhelm (1800-)22
Assmann, Friedrich Wilhelm22
Andral, Gabriel (1797-1876)18
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)17
Glauber, Johann Rudolf (1604-1670)15
Blandin, Philippe Frederic15
Blandin, Philippe Frederic (1798-1849)15

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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 Collection

Medical Manuscripts Collection

1756-1955

This artificial collection groups together some individual manuscripts relating medical practice and education. The general content of the collection includes lecture notes, case notes and papers, man...

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Archive Collection

Thomas Scattergood Collection

Scattergood, Thomas (1826-1900)

1846-1897

Contains three volumes of notebooks by Thomas Scattergood of medical case histories; and a file of notes for lectures on forensic medicine.

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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 Collection

Alibert family of Conques-sur-Orbiel papers

Alibert family

1655-1915

Comprises wills, marriage contracts, details of lawsuits and mortgages, plans for improvements to the Mill of the Tournal, doctors' prescriptions, and miscellaneous other personal papers belonging to ...

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Recipes for cookery and household remedies
Archive Series

Recipes for cookery and household remedies

16--

Contemporary pagination (irregular) 3-4, 10-11, 19-20, 23-48, 51-68, 69-71, 76-99, 104-109, 112-115, 122-127, 130-143, 148-167, 170-180. Commencing from the other end, modern ink pagination (irregular...

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Archive Series

G: Folk Medicine

1962-1978

This series contains items relating to traditional medicine. The subject matter largely covers kinds of treatments and cures, in particular cures for warts.

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Archive File

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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Archive Print part

Archibaldi Pitcarnii... Dissertationes medicae : quibus subjunguntur Epistola Archimedis, et poemata selecta, ejusdem auctoris

Pitcairn, Archibald (1652-1713)

1722

Epistola Archimedis and Poemata selecta have separate half-titles and pagination.

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Archive Print Item

Hermanni Conringii Introductio in universam artem medicam : singulasque ejus partes ex publicis ejus praecipue lectionibus olim concinnata nunc vero additamentis necessariis aucta continuata ad nostra tempora praecipuorum scriptorum serie

Conring, Hermann (1606-1681); Rode, Johan (1587-1659); Schelhammer, Günther Christoph (1649-1716); Bartholin, Caspar (1585-1629); Castelli, Pietro (1657); Linden, Johannes Antonides van der (1609-1664); Hoffmann, Friedrich (1660-1742)

1726

Title in red and black.

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