| Description | Notes, correspondence and photographs mainly relating to the origins of syphilis in Europe, also containing some material relating to leprosy. Comprises:
Photographs of a supposed syphilitic tibia from archaeological remains found in Solutr, being three glass plate negatives and three black and white prints.
Notes in German from a book by Sudhoff on the geographical origins of syphilis.
Catalogues of historical works on medicine from a German bookseller.
Envelope containing letter from G M Morant to K Pearson about Hythe skulls and enclosing letter and photographs from M B Gaillard, Director of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Lyons. The photographs show skulls from Predynastic Egypt from 'La Faune Momifie de l'Ancienne Egypt' and three black and white photographs of a tibia from the Solutr remains, while Gaillard's letter authorises use of the photographs in publications on condition that the source is cited.
Sets of notes on early references to syphilis focusing on the novelty of the disease, origins in Europe, naming, treatment (primarily with mercury), and symptoms.
Bundle of notes in which K Pearson analyses writing on syphilis by Freind, le Clerc, Hensler, and Astnic, and a letter from M Greenwood, 20 Jul 1925, on the diseases 'Formica' and 'Aluhumata'.
Notes and a letter from W Bulloch on inoculation of syphilitic llamas in Argentina.
Two prints showing a syphilitic skull.
Two envelopes containing correspondence and photographs relating to excavation of the Kingscase leper hospital site. First envelope contains letter from J F Tocher to K Pearson, 11 Jun 1926, enclosing diagram of the site in Prestwick and letter from Colonel Holdsworth; second envelope letters from Holdsworth about orientation and position of buildings on his map, and A C Arthur about photographs of the site (enclosed with letters).
Notes from correspondence of William Becket, an eighteenth century surgeon, on leprosy.
Further notes on the history of Kingscase, with a letter from Holdsworth to Tocher on the history of the leper hospital.
Bound volume of 'Uber den Ursprung der Syphilis' by D Gaston Vorberg (1924), containing inserts from 'Mnchener Medizinische Wochenschrift' and 'Medizinische Klinik' featuring articles on the history of medicine and an account of syphilis cases described by a 12th century Frenchman, and an offprint of Karl Sudhoff's lecture "Der Ursprung der Syphilis" given at the International Medical Congress in London in August 1913. |