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Total number of records: 5750

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Objects31
Indexes30
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Medical Collections2297
University Archive2159
Brotherton Collection237
Cookery Collection208
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society96
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture82
Leeds Russian Archive62
Liddle Collection37
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society30
English Literature29

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Galen40
Bell, Sir Charles (1774-1842)29
Pickles, William Norman (1885-1969)26
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Kuhn, Karl Gottlob (1754-1840)25
Assmann, Friedrich Wilhelm22
Assmann, Friedrich Wilhelm (1800-)22
Buchan, William (1729-1805)22
Andral, Gabriel (1797-1876)21
Cooper, Sir Astley (1768-1841)21

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Archive Sub-series

Medicine

1875-1995

Administrative records of the Medicine department.

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Name: Medicines

Reference: Carlton Hill H8

Meeting: Settle MM 1822-1853

Pages: 168, 170


Archive Print Collection

Medicine

The earliest work is a 1608 edition of Avicenna's Medicorum principis. Most of the books were published between 1750 and 1850, though a handful are earlier. Subjects include disease and disorders, hea...

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Archive File

Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Measurement in Medicine

9 Apr 1970-5 Jun 1970

Papers relating to the meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine held at the Leeds General Infirmary on 5 June 1970, where Frank Parsons delivered the joint paper on 'Measurement of the loss of Skeleta...

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Medicine, School of

1872-2001

(1) Formal group photograph of graduates in Medicine, 1951, (2) 15 photographs taken inside Killingbeck Hospital, 1975 (b/w contact prints, on 3 strips), (3) Photograph showing Sir Ronald Bodley-Scott...

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School of Medicine

1976-2001

(1) 42 photographs of the Old Medical School Site before the Conversion for Microbiology, illustrating the poor condition of the building (39 interior photographs, 3 external photographs), (2) Photogr...

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Medicine, Faculty of

1960-1989

Agenda, minutes, papers and circulars

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Archive Sub-series

Forensic Medicine

1946-1999

Administrative records of the Forensic medicine department.

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Medicine Horn
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Medicine Horn

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1962

Male holding cowhorn used as a spoon for administering medicine to cattle, Starbotton ( Wharfedale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0501. With typed note.

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Medicine Horn
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Medicine Horn

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

July 1962

Cowhorn used as a spoon for administering medicine to cattle, Starbotton ( Wharfedale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P0500. With typed note.

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Medicine Horns
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Medicine Horns

Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

September 1967

Cowhorns used as spoons for administering medicine to cattle and horses, hanging on the stone wall of a cowhouse or barn in Leyburn ( Wensleydale). The horns were collected in Swaledale by Mr. Ronnie ...

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