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Clara Jeynes photo album

Brown album – inscribed on the inside cover '"Jacques", with love, 1934' – containing black and white/sepia photographs apparently taken or collected by Clara Jeynes, who trained as a nurse at St George's. Includes images (with handwritten captions) of St George's Hospital (including theatres), Hyde Park, Princess Mary's Wedding Day (1922), the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (1924), other workplaces in Walsall and Southport, and various personal photographs (including a group labelled 'Memories of Surrey Sundays'), a few of which have been inserted loose.

Cocchi, Antonio: Graecorum Chirurgici Libri

Full title: ‘Graecorum Chirurgici Libri Sorani unus de fracturarum signis oribasii duo de fractis et de luxatis e collectione Nicetae ab antiquissimo et optimo codice Florentino descripti conversi atque editi ab Antonio Cocchio anatomes professore public et antiquario Caesaris’

Duncan, Andrew: Medical Commentaries, Vol. IX

Articles by various authors.

Full title: Medical Commentaries for the Year M.DCC.XCIV. Exhibiting a Concise View of the Latest and Most Important Discoveries in Medicine and Medical Philosophy, collected and published by Andred Duncan, M.D.F.R.&A.SS.Ed.’

Gataker: Essays on Medical Subjects

Inscriptions inside front cover and on flyleaves: ‘Presented by Mr Hammerton June 17, 1815’, ‘St George’s Hospital Library’, ‘J. Hammerton’

Full title: ‘Essays on Medical Subjects, Originally printed separately; To which is now prefixed an Introduction relating to the use of hemlock and corrosive sublimate; and to the application of caustic medicines in cancerous disorders’

Granville, A.B.: Graphic Illustrations of Abortion and the Diseases of Menstruation

Inscription on title page: ‘Presented to the Medical Library, St George’s Hospital by Sir Benjamin Brodie Bart’

Full title: ‘Graphic Illustrations of Abortion and The Diseases of Menstruation. Consisting of Twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr J. Perry, and two copper-plates from the Philosophical Transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks, anatomical and physiological’

Gray, Henry: Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical

Inscription on title page: ‘W. Percy Reynolds July 1872’

Full title: Anatomy Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons and lecturer on Anatomy at St George’s Hospital Medical School. The drawings by H.V. Carter, M.D., late demonstrator of anatomy at St George’s Hospital; with additional drawings in the second and later editions by Dr Westmacott. The dissections jointly by the author and Dr Carter. Fifth edition, with an introduction on general anatomy and development, by T. Holmes, M.A. Cantab. Surgeon to St George’s Hospital: Mem.Correp. De La Soc. De Chir. De Paris’

Fifth edition

Guattani: De Externis Aneurysmatibus

Full title: ‘De externis aneurysmatibus manu chirurgica methodice pertractandis cum nonnullis circa aneurysmata interna ac tribus aliis rarioribus chirurgicis observationibus atque oesophagotomiae operatione e gallico sermone in latinum versa. Omnia cum tablis archetypis opus Caroli Guattani’

Haller, Albrecht von: Disputationes Chirurgicae, Vols. 1-5

Inscription on title page: ‘Presented to the Library of St George’s Hospital by G.G. Babington Esq. Decbr 2nd 1843’

Full title: Disputationes Chirurgicae Selectae, collegit, edidit, praefatus est Albertus Hallerus’

Heister, Laurence: Medical, Chirurgical, and Anatomical Cases and Observations

Inscription on title page: ‘Presented to the St George’s Hospital Library by G.G. Babington Esq. Decr 2nd 1843’

Full title: ‘Medical, Chirurgical, and Anatomical Cases and Observations … With Copper-plates, illustrating the Descriptions in the respective Cases. Translated from the German Original by George Wirgman’

Heister, Lorenz: A General System of Surgery

Full title: ‘A General System of Surgery, in three parts. Containing the Doctrine and Management I. Of Wounds, Fractures, Luxations, Tumors, and Ulcers, of all Kinds. II. Of the several Operations performed on all Parts of the Body. III. Of the several Bandages applied in all Operations and Disorders. The Whole illustrated with Forty Copper-Plates, exhibiting all the Operations, Instruments, Bandages, and Improvements according to the Modern and most approved Practice. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, Concerning the Nature, Origin, Progress, and Improvements of Surgery, with such other Preliminaries as are necessary to be known by the Younger Surgeons. Being a Work of Thirty Years Experience’

Seventh edition

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