Record

StorageSite	UCL Institute of Neurology
Level	File
Reference Number	NHNN/S/2/209
Title	Greenfield, Joseph Godwin: correspondence
Date	1936
Description	A handwritten letter by Professor McMenemy to Dr Greenfield dated 1936, discovered in the archives of the Neuropathology Department, Maida Vale. Perhaps the first written document, which discusses a disease known today as 'familial British dementia'. Both Drs McMenemy and Greenfield were part of the papers (two of them in Brain), which first described this disease. The description/discovery of this disease is closely linked to the National Hospitals (both Queen Square and Maida Vale)
Extent	1 letter [Box 8]
Acquisition	Donated by Tamas Revesz October 2013
AccessStatus	Certain restrictions apply
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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