Notes on surgery made by Leonard Ralph Braithwaite

Description

Volume of manuscript notes on various aspects of surgical treatment, surgical techniques, diseases and conditions, made by Leonard Ralph Braithwaite. The notes appear to have been made mainly whilst Braithwaite was a student at the Leeds School of Medicine, but may also have gone into his time working at the Leeds General Infirmary, and as Berkeley G.A. Moynihan's personal assistant.


The volume has a thumb index at front, and the rest of the volume is paginated, pp.1-376. Pages 359-375 are unused; there are illustrations and notes on a timetable on the verso of p.375. Signature for Braithwaite on front fly-leaf verso, with 'General Infirmary, Leeds'.


The notes are detailed and cover a range of conditions, diseases, and surgical techniques. The notes appear generally to be sectioned into particular areas of the body, and are then refined into notes on specific conditions and their treatment.


The majority of the pages have illustrations, often in colour pencil, and there are some additional inserts attached to pages. The notes include clinical observations attributed to Berkeley Moynihan [often referred to as 'B.G.A.M' in the notes]; and they also refer to a number of other surgeons working at the Leeds General Infirmary and the Leeds School of Medicine, including: Harry Littlewood (1861-1921); Edward Ward (1855-1921); Harold Collinson (1876-1945); Joseph Faulkner Dobson (1874-1934); Alfred George Barrs (1853-1934).

Biography or history

Leonard Ralph Braithwaite (1878-1942), MRCS, FRCS, JP, was a surgeon based in Leeds. Born in Barnsley, he undertook his medical training at the Leeds Medical School, then part of the Yorkshire College. He qualified in 1903 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1907.


He then spent the rest of his career in Leeds at the General Infirmary, first as house physician to Alfred George Barrs (1853-1934) in 1903. The following year he was appointed house surgeon to Edward Ward (1855-1921), and he went on to become a full surgeon in 1924. Between 1910 and 1925 he acted as personal assistant to Berkeley G.A. Moynihan (1865-1936), 1st Baron Moynihan and surgeon at the LGI. Braithwaite retired from the LGI in 1938, and became honorary consulting surgeon. He was also Professor of Clinical Surgery at the University of Leeds, 1936-1938.


Sources:

Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online, 'Braithwaite, Leonard Ralph (1878-1942), http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E003901b.htm [accessed 17 Feb 2017]

S.T. Anning, 'The General Infirmary at Leeds Volume II: The Second Hundred Years (1869-1965)' (E&S Livingstone Ltd, London: 1966), pp.122-123.

Provenance

Transferred to Special Collections in 1981. Previously catalogued under an artificial catalogue, SC MS Case notes.

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Physical and technical conditions

Some parts of the spine cover are missing or coming away, exposing the binding.

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