Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 613 records

Total number of records: 613

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items587
Archives25
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Cookery Collection72
Brotherton Collection49
Leeds Russian Archive11
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society6
Ripon Cathedral5
Medical Collections4
Herbert Read Collection4
English Literature4
Quaker Collection3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
medicine613
surgery35
cooking, english28
cooking25
chemistry24
recipes23
physics16
alchemy13
theology13
medicine, greek and roman11

Count of Place

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

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Galen35
Kuhn, Karl Gottlob24
Kuhn, Karl Gottlob (1754-1840)24
Assmann, Friedrich Wilhelm22
Assmann, Friedrich Wilhelm (1800-)22
Andral, Gabriel (1797-1876)18
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)16
Begin, Louis Jacques (1793-1859)15
Blandin, Philippe Frederic15
Hippocrates15

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 150031
From 160093
From 1700103
From 1800256
From 190075
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 159931
Up to 169992
Up to 1799100
Up to 1899255
Up to 199978
Up to latest3

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 ...

More details


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...

More details


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...

More details


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/.

More details


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...

More details


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.

More details


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...

More details

Cookery book
Archive File

Cookery book

1731-1839?

Ff.1-5: medical recipes. Ff.426-72: La Pratica del Distillatore e / Confettiere Italiano. Opera di Gioseffantonio / Landvini ... Nuova edizione migliorata / Milano / Presso Giovanni Silvestri. Cucinie...

More details and larger image


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

More details


Archive File

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

Ellingworth, Samuel

c.1936

Lacks the references indicated in the text

More details

An anonymous eighteenth-century recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes
Archive File

An anonymous eighteenth-century recipe book containing culinary, medical and household recipes

17--

The book begins '[index] Almond'. Recipes are ascribed to 'Mrs. Gorden' (p.10), 'Raffald' (p.45), 'Miss Hall' (p.48), 'Mrs. Masterson' (p.198) and 'Mr. Webb' (p.226).

More details and larger image