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The collection contains records created by St George's, University of London (formerly known as St George's Hospital Medical School). Medical school records include:

• Minutes and papers of the School Council, Academic Board and other committees, 1862-2000

• Student registers, record cards and certificates, 1752-1970s

• Manuscripts relating to the early administration of the medical school

• Institutional publications including school yearbooks, 1990-2014; directories, calendars and prospectus' relating to the school, 1852-c.1960

• Photographs relating to the medical school and St George's Hospital, including photos of staff, students, events and sports teams, 19th century-21st century

• Other miscellaneous materials

Records consist of student admission registers and records cards; student photographs; student certificates, tickets and register of prizes; includes other miscellaneous papers relating to students

Inscription on title page: ‘1754, an Excellent Edition’, Lowndes, Vol. 4 – a commoner edition is marked by him e.x.’

'Recd the 2 day of May 1761 of Mr Andrew Millar the sum of Two Guineas (£s 2,2) being One Year’s Subscription for the relief of the Lame Sick & needy in St George’s Hospital near Hyde-park Corner ending at Lady Day 1762 by Rich[ar]d Aspinwall Jos[eph] Hudson Treasurers’

The illustrated receipt contains printed inscription ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’

The collection relates to Hunter’s dispute with St George’s Hospital and the division of pupils’ fees among the surgeons, which Hunter perceived as unfair, arguing he brought in more pupils than the other surgeons. The dispute culminated in a meeting in Oct 1793 at the hospital, during which Hunter suffered a heart attack and died.

In addition to the papers relating to the dispute, there are some additional notes, some collected by Charles Hawkins and some by George Edwards. These include copies of two letters from John Hunter’s pupil James Williams to his sister, describing working with Hunter, dissections and the work of the so-called ‘Resurrection Men’, and describing Hunter’s death. These were acquired apparently from a descendant of Williams by Edwards; the location of the original letters is unknown.

Two letters from James Williams to his sister Mary in Worcester.

In the first letter, James Williams describes his daily work assisting John Hunter with preparations, and his attendance of Matthew Baillie’s lectures on anatomy and Everard Home’s lectures on surgery and physiology. He describes living with Hunter [at 13 Castle Square, backing onto Hunter’s Leicester Square residence], where his room is right below the ‘dissecting room with half a dozen dead bodies in it’, and how ‘there is a dead carcass just at this moment rumbling up the stairs and the Resurrection Men swearing most terribly’. He describes Hunter as a ‘very good kind of man when you have been used to him tho he has some oddities’. He states that the fee to attend dissections is five guineas, ‘besides buying bodies’, generally shared by two students and costing ‘about a guinea’. He asks for Mary’s watch as he does not have one himself, and it is as safe in London as it is in Worcester, promises to pay George back and asks for his books to be forwarded to him.

The second letter appears to have been written on the day of Hunter’s death. Williams states that Hunter had had ‘for these several years a very irregular spasmodic affection at his heart’. Williams describes having had breakfast with Hunter in the morning, after which Hunter left to see his patients and then to St George’s Hospital, where ‘the surgeons of this charity have been at variance with him … respecting some of the pupils’. Following ‘several words with the surgeons which brought on his complaint’, he died at the hospital. Williams says that Mrs Hunter [Anne Hunter] and their children were out of town. He says that ‘the other two pupils’ are leaving London for a while, and with no lectures he also plans ‘an excursion somewhere or other’.

These letters are transcripts and photocopies by George Edwards in 1968 from letters held by a descendant of James and Mary Williams (Edwards, George. 1968. John Hunter’s last pupil. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 42 (1):68-70).

Inscription on title page: ‘For the Library of the Lyceum Medicum Londinense from the Editor’

'Received the 22 day of Jan[uar]y 1805 from Mr Harpton the Sum of Two Guineas being one years subscription towards the Relief of The Sick, Lame, & Needy in St George’s Hospital near Hyde-Park Corner to Xmas 1805 for J. Burton Esz, J. Gisley[?] Treasurers’

The illustrated receipt contains several Biblical quotations and a printed notice from the Weekly Board in 1799. The bottom of the receipt is inscribed ‘Wm Thompson Collector’

Inscription on title page: ‘St George’s Hospital Library’

Collection charting the development of nursing education at St George's and related institutions from the 19th century to the present day.

The collection includes:

• Student registers, training and examination records, prospectuses and syllabuses
• Administrative records, including committee minutes, reports, rules and regulations
• Publications and printed material including books, newsletters and journals
• Papers, photographs and artefacts from St George’s Nurses’ League
• Personal papers, memoirs and memorabilia from individual nurses, including papers of matron Dame Muriel Powell (c.1910s-­1970s)
• Photographs, including student photographs, group photographs and personal photo albums
• Artefacts and objects, including items of nurses' uniform, badges, medals, and medical instruments
• ‘Nurses’ Voices’ oral history project: interviews with over 100 former St George’s nurses and midwives (and related documentation), recorded 2003-2008

From in-­job training at the hospital, nursing education was gradually formalised during the latter half of the 19th century. From 1882 onwards, probationer nurses were offered lectures by the medical school and hospital staff; these lectures developed into a more formal syllabus, becoming compulsory for probationers in the 1890s, and the first formal examinations were introduced in 1894. The archive charts the development of nursing education from the late 19th century to the 21st century, including important changes in the demographics of the nursing staff, such as the arrival of the Windrush generation.

The collection encompasses training of nurses at St George’s and related institutions: for instance, nursing training at Victoria Hospital for Children and Grove Hospital were merged with St George’s School of Nursing in the 1950s, leading to the establishment of a branch of the School of Nursing at Tooting, where St George’s Hospital and Medical School (later university) moved in the 1970s from Hyde Park Corner, central London.

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’

Certificate from the Royal College of Surgeons in London, signed by Astley Cooper, Anthony Carlisle, George James Guthrie, Anthony White, John G. Andrews, B.G. Brodie and Samuel Cooper, 3 Jun 1839

Certificate from the School of Anatomy adjoining Saint George’s Hospital, signed by Samuel Lane and John Harrison, 1 May 1839

Pasted inside front cover: ‘This book was presented to the Western Medical and Surgical Society by Wm Dickinson Edq on May 1, 1846’

The post mortem records contain manuscript case notes, with medical notes both pre and post mortem. These include details on patients’ admission to the hospital, treatments and medication administered to patients and the medical history of patients; the medical histories were copied into the volumes from hospital registers, which are no longer extant. The post mortem cases include detailed pathological findings made during the detailed examination of the body after death. From the 1880s onwards the case books contain original anatomical drawings and photographs.

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The following information is recorded for each case. The information is transcribed from the case notes and/or the relevant index and, where relevant, additionally standardised using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)

• Name of the patient. If a name is not entered in the volume, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No name stated]’

• Gender of the patient (female / male / unknown)

• Age of the patient. Usually in numbers, following the original, with the following exceptions: 4/12 = 4 months, 4/52 = 4 weeks, 4/365 = 4 days. If no age is entered, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No age stated]’

• Occupation of the patient. Where no occupation is entered, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No occupation stated]’. Children are often designated according to their father’s or mother’s occupation and women by their husband’s occupation (e.g. ‘F / Horsekeeper’, ‘M. Charwoman’, ‘Hd Grocer’); these have been rendered in the catalogue as ‘[Child of] Horsekeeper’, ‘[Wife of] Grocer’

• Date of admission and date of death

• The names of the doctors treating or examining the patient. ‘Admitted under the care of’ denotes the senior doctor in charge of the case (usually entered at the top of the page and in the index); ‘Post mortem performed by’ denotes the doctor responsible for the post mortem examination (usually signed at the bottom of the page) and ‘Medical examination performed by’ denotes the doctor responsible for the medical examination prior to death (usually signed at the bottom of the page). The earliest records usually contain only one name, and some of the later ones may contain multiple names in each category. An authority record (name access point) with basic biographical details has been created for each doctor mentioned in the records; these can be used to explore all the cases related to a particular individual

• Disease(s) or cause of death of the patient. Transcribed from the medical case and/or the index and standardised, e.g. ‘Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Fractured base. Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (lungs). Fracture (skull)’

• Medical and post mortem notes. Brief summary description or transcription of the case notes relating to previous medical history (not a full transcription of the case notes)

• Note on whether the case includes illustrations or photographs; these can also be browsed via genre access points

• Note on whether the death was caused by trauma, accident or suicide

• Subject access points, using standardised terms from MeSH, with disease type (e.g. respiratory tract diseases, cardiovascular diseases) and anatomy type (e.g. cardiovascular system, musculoskeletal system), which can be used for browsing all relevant cases

Note on transcriptions and abbreviations

Names have been silently expanded, e.g. Jas = James, Wm = William

Some common abbreviations and acronyms

AMCH = Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital, Wimbledon
BID = Brought in dead
COA = Condition on admission
F = Father
H or Hd = Husband
HP = House physician
HS = House surgeon
IP = In-patient
L = Left
M = Mother
MR or Med reg or Med r = Medical register or Medical registrar
MS = Museum specimen
OP = Out-patient
OPD = Out-patient department
OR = Obstetric register
PMH = Previous medical history
PH = Previous history
Pt or Pat = Patient
PM = Post mortem
R = Right
RF = Rheumatic fever
Ry = Railway
SR or Surg reg = Surgical register or Surgical registrar
TB = Tuberculosis
VD = Venereal disease

Inscription on title page: ‘For the Medical Library of St George’s Hospital, from the Author’

Presented to Mr W.B. Stephens, St George's Hospital Medical Jurisprudence Prize session 1849-50.

'Received the 12 day of July 1850 from Richard Jones Esq the Sum of Five Guineas (£s 5.5.0) being one years subscription towards the Relief of The Sick, Lame, & Needy in St George’s Hospital near Hyde-Park Corner to Midsummer 1851 for J.V. Thompson Treasurer Wm Lewns Collector’

The illustrated receipt contains several Biblical quotations and a printed notice William Lewns, collector’

Prospectuses and guides to courses available to students

Inscription on title page: ‘The Norf. & Norw. Med. Book Society. From the author’. Stamped’Norwich & Norfolk United Medical Book Society’ and St George’s Hospital Medical School Library