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Interviews recorded with 87 people using palliative care services between 2007 and 2016. Each interview has an accompanying summary document and some have full transcripts.

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Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at Regent Street.

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Papers relating to the 1976 Royal Commission on the National Health Service, presented to the University of Sheffield Library by Professor Sir Paul Bramley, a member of the Commission.

For further details of this collection, see the finding aid in the External documents section below.

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Photographs and other portraits of medical personnel and institutions associated with Sheffield and its University, along with a small number of related documents.

The collection has been formed from material already held by the Library, both from University records and from donated material.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.

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Papers of the Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society and its predecessors, 1841-1972. The collection consists of the extant records of the Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society and of some of the various predecessor medical institutions, including book societies, of the early 19th century.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.

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Documents relating to the career of Professor David Henry Smyth, including lectures, speeches and essays by Smyth and others. For the box list for this collection please see the external documnets sections below.

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A small collection of printed documents relating to the Sorby Research Institute at the University of Sheffield and its experimental work during World War II, and including some other works relating to those principally involved.

For a full listing for this collection please see the External Document Section below.

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Handbills for travelling exhibitions and sideshows at Strand, Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Fleet Street.

Scope and Contents Papers on the history of the clinical use of penicillin, 1945-1996, with particular reference to its early use in Sheffield, and to the reputation of Sir Alexander Fleming.The papers relate principally to the history of two medical scientists: Sir Alexander Fleming, who published his discovery of penicillin in 1929 but who has been subsequently criticised for an apparent failure to pursue its clinical potential, criticism repeated in a BBC Horizon programme in 1989; and Dr Cecil...

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A collection of 70 books dating from the sixteenth to mid-twentieth centuries, mostly relating to medical matters. Among the titles: Robert Boyle’s 'Medicinal Experiments' (1692), John Ray’s 'Catalogus Plantarum Circa Cantabrigiam' (1660), and Nicholas Culpepper’s 'A Directory for Midwives' (1777).