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Antonio Serantoni of Florence, and Jacob Legozzi at Cosmorama Rooms. Model of a female figure "The model is shown to ladies in private and explained by a female". Including The Cardinal Sins, 7 allegorical paintings by J. Legozzi. Printed by E. and J. Thomas, 6 Exeter Street, Exeter Hall, Strand.

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Antonio Serantoni of Florence at Cosmorama Rooms. Model of a female figure "The model is shown to ladies in private and explained by a female" Also seven allegorical paintings by Jacob Ligozzi, 2pp.

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Documents relating to the work of Ronald Witham Elliott, former County Medical Officer of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and a graduate of the University of Sheffield.

The collection consists of committee and other papers, and printed material, relating to the work of Ronald Witham Elliott.

Scope and Contents Documents relating to the harmonisation of professional standards of nursing practice in the European Union, mainly relate to the period 1977 to 2000. They have been assembled by two professionally qualified nurses who represented the UK in the process, Dame Sheila Quinn and Thomas Keighley.Series 1 relates to the work of Dame Sheila Quinn, who was President of the Royal College of Nursing 1982-86 and Regional Nursing Officer, Wessex Regional Health Authority 1978-83, and who...

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Antonio Serantoni of Florence at 432 Strand. Model of a female figure "The model is shown to ladies in private and explained by a female". Printed by Hancock, Middle Row Place, Holborn.

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Florentine Venus at London Anatomical Museum. Open daily from 10 till 10, for gentlemen only. Museum housing "Florentine Venus, the whole of the organs of the body in health and disease, the development of the foetus" etc.

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Documents relating to the career of Walter Careless Freer, surgeon and early graduate of the Sheffield Medical School.

The collection consists of certificates and letters of recommendation relating to the career of Walter Freer from his entry into apprenticeship at the Sheffield Medical School in 1835 through a range of courses, applications and appointments.

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Documents relating to the career and life in China during the period 1930-1945 of Mary Prowse Gell, hospital doctor and lecturer in medicine. The collection consists of a small number of documents relating to Dr Gell's career in China, during which she experienced the Japanese invasion of that country and was subsequently interned there by the Japanese during World War II. The documents consist largely of contemporary letters and her own eyewitness accounts.

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Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances in London.

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A collection of books on the history of medicine. The books range in date from the early 16th century to the early 20th century, all bearing the somewhat macabre Innes Smith bookplate. There is a strong bias towards medical biography.

For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.

Scope and Contents Approximatly 300 portraits of medical men from the 16th to the early 20th centuries collected by Robert Innes Smith (1872-1933), a doctor who worked in the Brightside area of Sheffield. Most of the items in the collection are engravings, mezzotints, lithographs and photographs, the majority being portraits of distinguished medical men although some non-medical related portraits are also included within the collection. The collection reflects the interests of Innes Smith, a large proportion...

Scope and Contents A small collection of personal papers of Robert William Innes Smith, medical practitioner in Sheffield and medical historian, for the period circa 1894 to 1936. The papers are personal documents (correspondence, news-cuttings etc.) which belonged to Robert William Innes Smith but which were not included in his Working Papers deposited at the Royal College of Physicians of London.The file includes a copy of the listing, with his notes on the papers, made by Dr Harold Swan,...

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A collection of documents relating to the life and career of radiologist John Lewis Anderton Grout (1889-1963).

Scope and Contents The collection consists of handbills, programmes and small flyers for shows, fairs, expositions and circus performances in the nineteenth century. The circus material in the Bramwell Taylor Collection was sponsored by the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain and consists of material relating to 19th century touring circuses, individual acts and purpose built hippodromes such as Hengler’s Circus and Astley’s Amphitheatre. Additionally this collection also contains a small amount of...

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A collection of around 1250 items from the library of Sir Hans Krebs. The Krebs Collection consists of over 800 books and periodicals, which have been individually catalogued, and over 400 pamphlets, newspaper cuttings and reprints of journal articles, which have been listed.

Some of the material has been annotated by Krebs.

For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.

Scope and Contents The personal and scientific papers of the biochemist Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, circa 1915 to 1982.This extensive archive comprises the personal and scientific working papers of the distinguished biochemist Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981), Nobel prizewinner in 1953 (with Franz Lipmann) for Physiology and Medicine in recognition of his elucidation of the metabolic process known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle or citric acid cycle. The collection was assembled from several sources...

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London Anatomical Museum. Illustration of premises.

Scope and Contents Documents on the early life and career of Lydia Manley Henry, graduate of the University of Sheffield Medical School. The collection consists of notes by Dr Henry on her early life in Sheffield as a medical student and her subsequent relatively short career in medicine, together with three photographs. There are also notes relating to her time as a pupil at Sheffield Day High School for Girls.For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the External...

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A collection of pamphlets gathered by medical physicist Harold Miller, which relate to his interests in medical physics, the Methodist church, social justice, and world peace.

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The collection consists of both the working, and personal papers, along with other documents, of medical physicist Professor Harold Miller.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid in the external documents section below.