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Total number of records: 615

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items588
Archives26
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Cookery Collection72
Brotherton Collection48
Leeds Russian Archive11
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society6
Ripon Cathedral5
English Literature4
Herbert Read Collection4
Medical Collections4
Quaker Collection3
Leeds Animation Workshop2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
medicine615
surgery35
cooking, english28
cooking25
chemistry24
recipes23
physics16
alchemy13
theology13
home economics11

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Soviet Union2
Bath (England)1
Israel1
Jerusalem (Israel)1
Middle East1
Paris (France)1
Stratford-Upon-Avon (England)1
United States1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Galen35
Kuhn, Karl Gottlob24
Kuhn, Karl Gottlob (1754-1840)24
Assmann, Friedrich Wilhelm22
Assmann, Friedrich Wilhelm (1800-)22
Andral, Gabriel (1797-1876)18
Boyle, Robert (1627-1691)16
Andral, Gabriel15
Begin, Louis Jacques15
Begin, Louis Jacques (1793-1859)15

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 150031
From 160093
From 1700103
From 1800256
From 190078
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 159931
Up to 169992
Up to 1799100
Up to 1899255
Up to 199981
Up to latest3

Archive Collection

Alibert family of Conques-sur-Orbiel papers

Alibert family

1655-1915

Comprises wills, marriage contracts, details of lawsuits and mortgages, plans for improvements to the Mill of the Tournal, doctors' prescriptions, and miscellaneous other personal papers belonging to ...

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Leigh Hunt, correspondence and related material

Hunt, Leigh (1784-1859)

1851-1952

Correspondence: (1) 18 autograph letters from Leigh Hunt to George Bird, 24 June 1851-31 October 1852, concerning medical matters; (2) 1 typewritten letter from Dr Cedric Keith Simpson to Dr E. Clayto...

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Archive Collection

Max Isserlin Collection

Isserlin, Max (1879-1941)

1902-1999

Papers of the psychiatrist Max Isserlin, includes: journals and papers on psychological and medical subjects; correspondence files; working papers; case histories and medical reports; photographs and ...

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Archive Collection

Medical Manuscripts Collection

1756-1955

This artificial collection groups together some individual manuscripts relating medical practice and education. The general content of the collection includes lecture notes, case notes and papers, man...

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Archive Sub-collection

ANGLO-RUSSIAN HOSPITAL

[1916?]

Postcards showing: staff and patients of the Anglo-Russian Hospital, Petrograd /1-4/; Anglo-Russian Hospital motor ambulance unit /5/; Russian soldiers and refugees, WWI /6-17/.

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HARMER Collection

1898-2000

Modern prints of photographs of: Anglo-Russian Hospital, Petrograd, 1915-1917 (group photographs of staff and visitors include Sir George Buchanan, Lady Sybil Grey, Lady Muriel Paget and members of th...

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Archive File

Dr Brady's case book, compiled by Jonathan Hutchinson.

Hutchinson, Jonathan

1846-1847

Comprises a record of cases seen during 1846 and 1847, while Hutchinson was a student at York medical school.

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Archive File

Notes on old cookery books, compiled by John Hodgkin

Hodgkin, John (bibliographer)

c.1925

The main manuscript contains five chapters devoted to old cookery books of particular interest, as follows: (1) ff.4-16: Ann Wallis: 1673; (2) ff.17-37: Mrs Windham: 1710; (3) ff. 38-60: Captain Thoma...

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Cookery book
Archive File

Cookery book

1731-1839?

Ff.1-5: medical recipes. Ff.426-72: La Pratica del Distillatore e / Confettiere Italiano. Opera di Gioseffantonio / Landvini ... Nuova edizione migliorata / Milano / Presso Giovanni Silvestri. Cucinie...

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An alphabetical author catalogue of the library of old books on alchemy, chemistry and medicine collected by Alfred Chaston Chapman

Chaston Chapman, Alfred (1869-1932)

c.1901-1925

Contents: (1) authors, A-F, (2) authors, G-O, (3) authors, P-Z, and modern works on the history of chemistry, on the Royal Society and on brewing and distilling

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Chemotherapeutic work at Leeds, 1919-1932, [a reminiscence] by Samuel Ellingworth

Ellingworth, Samuel

c.1936

Lacks the references indicated in the text

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