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Year Books

Collection of year books. The volumes feature profiles, individual and group photos, cartoons, messages from the Principal and Dean, messages from other staff members, and contact details so the students can keep in touch.

Year Book

Yearbook for the class of 2001 which contains profiles and photographs of students at St George's, and group photos from their time at the University.

St George's Hospital Medical School, London

Two copy letters from James Williams to Mary Williams regarding Hunter’s death

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).

Students Payments

Register of students payments; volume provides details of student name, conditions of entry, number of library subscriptions, special classes and fees/payments.

St George's Hospital Medical School, London

Student records

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

St George's Hospital Medical School, London

Student newsletters

Newsletters created by medical students for medical students.

The collection includes the following issues:
1983: 1
1985: 16, 20
1986: [unnumbered], 25, 28
1987: 30
1988: 34-36, 38, 40-41
1989: 42, 44
1990: 45-49
1991: 50-54
1992: 57-59
1993: 61-65, 67-74
1994: 79-80, 82
1997: 89-92, Election special
1999: 96, 101

St George's Nursing Collection

  • 406 NU
  • Collection
  • c.1830-2015

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.

St George's Hospital Medical School, London

St George's Hospital Reports, Vol. I

The volume includes a brief history of the hospital and the medical school.

Contents:
I. Some Account of St. George’s Hospital and School. By W. E. PAGE, M.D., Senior Physician to the Hospital
II. Contributions to the Surgery of the Head. No. I. On the Deviations of the Base of the Skull in Chronic Hydrocephalus. By PRESCOTT HEWETT, Surgeon to the Hospital
III. A Case of Meningocele, in the Occipital Region, which was injected with Iodine, without ill consequences, the Patient dying of Broncho-pneumonia. By T. HOLMES, Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital, and Lecturer on Anatomy
IV. On the Typhus Epidemic of 1864-5, as observed at St. George’s Hospital. By R. E. THOMPSON, M.D., Medical Registrar of the Hospital
V. Notes on an Epidemic of Typhus at Leeds, in the Year 1865-6. By T. CLIFFORD ALLBUTT, M.B., Physician to the Fever Infimmary, Fever Hospital, &0. at Leeds
VI. On the Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Progressive Locomotor Ataxy. By J. LOCKHART CLARKE, F.R.S.
VII. On Rheumatic Iritis. By J. ROUSE, Lecturer on Anatomy at the Hospital School
VIII. On Cerebral Symptoms occurring in certain Affections of the Ear. By J. TOYNBEE, F.R.S., late Consulting Aural Surgeon to St. Mary’s Hospital, Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, and to St. George’s and St. James’s Dispensary
IX. On some Points connected with the Treatment of Hernia. By J. WARRINGTON HAWARD, Resident Medical Oflicer to the Hospital for Sick Children
X. On Amputation at the Hip-joint, and on the Applicability of this Operation in some of the worst Cases of Morbus Coxarius. Part I. For recurrent Fibro-plastic Tumour. Part II. In Morbus Coxarius. By T. HOLMES, Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital
XI. On Disease of the Brain as a result of Diabetes Mellitus, illustrated by the Narrative of a Case (with Clinical Observations) in which Paralysis, due to Softening of the Brain, came on in a Diabetic Patient, and proved fatal. Followed by a Notice of Fifteen Fatal Cases of Diabetes, cited from the Records of the Hospital. By Dr. JOHN W. OGLE, Physician to the Hospital
XII. On Jaundice and Biliousness. By Dr. H. BENCE JONES, formerly Physician to the Hospital
XIII. On Paralysis occurring in Childbed. By Dr. F. F. FUSSELL, Physician to the Brighton Dispensary
XIV. Remarks upon the Modus Operandi of Hypodermic Injections. By C. HUNTER, Surgeon to the Royal Pimlico Dispensary
XV. On Congenital Dislocations of the Femur. By B. E. BRODHURST, Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital
XVI. On the Diurnal Variations in the Temperature of the Human Body in Health. By Dr. WILLIAM OGLE, Lecturer on Physiology at the Medical School of the Hospital
XVII. On Rupture of Arteries dependent on external Injury. By GEORGE POLLOCK, Surgeon to the Hospital
XVIII. On the Formation of Coagula in the Cerebral Arteries. By Dr. DICKINSON, Assistant Physician to the Hospital
XIX. On Talipes Varus. By B. E. BRODHURST, Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital
XX. On Talipes Equinus. By G. NAYLER, Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, and the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin
XXI. On the Amputation-Book of St. George’s Hospital, and on some Points connected with the Statistics of Three Hundred Amputations there recorded. Part I. On the Influence of Age upon the Results of Amputation. Part II. 'On the Causes of Death, after Amputation; with special reference to the proportion of Deaths due to causes preceding the Amputation. By T. HOLMES, Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital
XXII. Statistical Tables from the Dental Case-Books of St. George’s Hospital. By C. VASEY, Surgeon-Dentist to the Hospital
Annual Report of Cases admitted into the Medical Wards of St. George’s Hospital during the Year 1865. By Dr. STURGES
Annual Report of Surgical Cases treated in the Hospital during the Year 1865. By Mr. PICK

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
View of St. George’s Hospital in its present condition
View of the Hospital as it appeared in 1746. From a picture by R. Wilson, R.A., in the Foundling Hospital
Foetal Skull, showing the arrangement of the bones in a case of chronic hydrocephalus, affecting the middle fossae (Mr. Prescott Hewett)
The representation, from life, of a case similar to the foregoing (Mr. Prescott Hewett)
Meningocele in the occipital region (Mr. Holmes)
The same as above, showing the parts within the skull (Mr. Holmes)
Thermograph, in a case of fever (Dr. Thompson)
Diseased Femur (Mr. H. Lee) .
Stump of amputation (Mr. H. Lee)
Lithographic representation of -a Femur, showing the effects of chronic Osteo-myelitis (Mr. Holmes)
Consolidated Lung, having its arteries full of laminated coagulum (Dr. John W. Ogle)
Thermographs showing variations of temperature in health (Dr. William Ogle)
Front view of a case of Talipes equinus (Mr. Nayler)
Back view of the same preparation (Mr. Nayler)
An extreme case of Talipes equinus (Mr. Nayler)
The same foot after successful treatment (Mr. Nayler)
Contraction of the ext. prop. pollicis, with rectangular contraction of the tendo Achillis (Mr. Nayler) .
Talipes equinus paralytieus (Mr. Nayler)
Extreme degree of Talipes equinus paralyticus (Mr. Nayler)

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