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Letter from Berkeley G.A. Moynihan to Professor Stewart, with accompanying notes

Archive Item: MS 2032/26

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Letter from Berkeley G.A. Moynihan to Professor Stewart, with accompanying notes

Level: Item

Classmark: MS 2032/26

Date(s): 1923-1929

Language: English

Size and medium: 1 envelope; 11 manuscript papers

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/620220

Collection group(s): Medical Collections

Description

Typescript letter sent from Berkeley G.A. Moynihan (1865-1936), to Professor [Matthew] Stewart, then chair of pathology at the Medical School, University of Leeds.


The letter, dated 13 February 1929, relates to a gastrectomy Moynihan performed for a patient in August 1928; and contains annotations, possibly by Stewart.


The letter is accompanied by 10 additional pages of notes relating to this operation, and other patient cases, including for an operation on a cancerous ulcer and a chronic gastric ulcer. The cases are dated 1923-1924, and there are diagrams illustrating the notes. Some of the notes are on Leeds General Infirmary-headed paper. It is unclear whether these notes were written by Moynihan or Stewart.

Biography or history

Matthew John Stewart (1885-1956) was clinical pathologist at the Leeds General Infirmary from 1910, and taught at the University of Leeds Faculty of Medicine, where he was Dean between 1941 and 1948.


For a full biography, see the Royal College of Physicians, Lives of the Fellows online, Munk's Roll Volume V, 'Matthew John Stewart', http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4249 [accessed 1 Mar 2017]

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