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Guy's Hospital Medical School wages book, Mar 1891-Aug 1902

Two volumes of printed drawing by R M Wingent, including a number reprinted from the Guy's Hospital Gazette, 1906-1912.

Guy's Hospital Clubs' Union Council grants, volume recording grants to constituent clubs of the Union, 1931-1939.

Volume containing testimonials for Samuel Wilks, 1843-1846, 1852-1853. Also letters to Wilks, from Alfred S Taylor, 10 Apr 1886, and W M Hughes, 9 Apr 1886, relating to publication of a papers in the Guy's Reports.

Bound volume containing cuttings of articles by William Tiffin Iliff, surgeon, including 'Cases of syanosis or morbus caeruleus with remarks on the condition of the fossa ovalis', London Medical Gazette, 5 Dec 1845; 'Royal South London Dispensary [cases of ] empyema and pneumothorax',The Lancet, Nov, Dec 1846; Royal South London Dispensary, pleuritic effusion and malignant disease', The Lancet, 2 Jan 1847; Royal South London Dispensary – diffuse phlegmonous inflammation', The Lancet, 17 Feb 1847; 'Cases of intestinal irritation', The Chemist, Mar 1847; 'Experiment with chloroform at the Royal Institution, The Lancet, 5 Feb 1848; 'On a case of poisoning by opium, and its successful treatment by electro-galvanism', The Lancet, 24 mar 1849; 'Cases of poisoning with remarks', The Lancet, 1 Dec 1849, 15 Dec 1849; 'Cases of spina bifida', Lancet, 20 Apr 1850; 'Cases in private practice', and 'The microscope and its wonders'.

Large volume of approx 305 pressed botanical specimens, belonging to Frederick Leopold Pulling.

Philosophy, 1795' Manuscript volume of notes by Martin Tupper, headed introduction to natural philosophy with subheadings indicating chapters and sections which suggest they are notes from a published volume. 40pp

Lectures on chronic diseases by George Fordyce MD FRS, Censor of the Royal College of Physicians, Readers of the Practice of Physic in London, and Senior Physician to St Thomas's Hospital, taken by Daniel Jarvis, 1786'.Manuscript volumes of 53 lectures, Volume 1, folios 1-186, containing index to all three volumes; Volume 2, folios 189-380; Volume 3, folios 381-585.

Miscellaneous items including  Richards' Medical Almanac, 1882 being an epitome of the history of medicine ; and two charity postage stamps issued during Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee year for the Prince of Wales Hospital Fund, 1897; two tickets to the Maze Pond Chapel Circulating Library Annual Tea Meeting, 4 Dec 1862 (found behind the plaster at 141 Borough High St, Feb 1984); The Sunday Magazine, No 134, 2 Aug 1834 (with engraving of Thomas's Guy's tomb); British Medical Association invitation to a lecture 'Medical aspects of the use of atomic energy, 22 Apr 1958, E Katherine Wilkins; cutting from the Norwich Mercury, 24 Jan 1934, describing Sir Astley Coopers great surgical operation of removing a thigh at the hip joint; cutting containing the Hippocratic Oath.

University of London, the historical record (1836-1926), University of London Press, London, 1926. 611pp

Hortus Medicus large volume containing pressed botanical specimens, by unidentified author.

Typescript copies of questionnaire from the university courts and University Grant Committee relating to school arrangements during its relocation at Sherwood Park, Tunbridge Wells, including budget estimates for the coming year, Nov 1939.

Typescript thesis for degree of MD, University of Cambridge, 'Spastic conditions following a cerebral lesion', Astley V Clarke, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, Norwood House, London Road, Leicester, 1898.50pp

Typescript thesis for MB Degree Cambridge 'Gastric ulcer and its perforation', William Langham Garner, Guy's Hospital, Nov 1896. 26ppGarner: MB BCh Camb 1896, BA Nat Sci Trip 1891, MRCS, LCP Lond 1896.

Typescript copy of the charter of St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College.

'Treatise on the operations of surgery with a description and representation of the instruments used in performing them, to which is prefixed an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses and ulcers. By Samuel Sharp, surgeon to Guy's Hospital.' Manuscript volume including dedication to William Cheselden, Surgeon to Chelsea Hospital; preface; contents page; thirty seven chapters on surgical procedures such as the suture of the tendons, the amputation of cancered and schorrous breast, bronchotomy, and amputation. Also contains illustrations of surgical instruments with explanation of their use and construction. 293pp Donated to the Wills Library by Dr G Newton Pitt, 5 May 1913.

Notes on lectures by Mr Home, 1794-1795', [delivered at Guy's Hospital, transcribed from the notes of Mr George Rose], presented to Guy's Hospital Museum by Dr C Skinner, Thames Board Mills, Purfleet, Essex, 1933. Bound manuscript volume of lectures on practical surgery. Contains subject index at the back of the volume. 196pp

Manuscript extracts from descriptions of medical cases from various published work including theMedical Record, The Lancet, British Medical Journal, Principles and practice of medicine, William Osler, or cases from Guy's hospital wards, 1889-1898, relating to diseases of the pancreas. The tabulated extracts include sources of authority, and details of the patient's sex, age, previous history, symptoms, post mortem appearance, and remarks.

Typescript thesis 'On focul sepsis in relation to diseases of the eye'. 53pp

Manuscript thesis titled 'Some tumours of the eye' submitted for the Oldham Prize in Ophthalmology by Donald Francis Durward, 1 Dec 1923.