Item K/PP149/2/2/25 - Saunders' draft MD thesis, [1965], 'The control of pain in terminal cancer'

Typescript draft of Cicely Saunders' (unsubmitted) MD thesis, 'The control of pain in terminal cancer'. It summarises her work at St Joseph's Hospice, 1958-1965, treating over 1800 patients and compiling detailed notes on 1100 of those patients. In her thesis Saunders sought to determine which available narcotics provided the most effective pain relief and to define the parameters of pain experienced by patients, including the mental pain associated with terminal cancer. File also includes appendices of tables detailing the results of clinical trials on the effectiveness of diamorphine and the incidence of drug dependence, transcripts of recorded interviews with patients and research references.