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Folder contains 7 items:

/ Letter addressed to Dr B.S. Robertson appointing him to the Office of Resident Medical Officer in Dundee
Royal Infirmary (Wards 15, 16 and 18) enclosing a copy of the Rules for Resident Medical Officers sent by
W.F. Ferguson, Secretary, Dundee Convalescent Home and Sidlaw Sanatorium, Dundee Royal Infirmary,
21 January 1937
/ Black and white photograph titled 'Dr Margaret Soutar' (nd)
/ Packet of 6 negative slides titled 'Sint-Jans Hospital - Brugge: Jan Beerblock (1793-1806) - views inside
the old sick wards in the Saint John's Hospital of Bruges, 1778'
/ Booklet titled 'Medicines From Prince Charles Edwards to Prince Charles - Lilly Lecture 1979 by
Ronald H Girdwood
/ Photocopy of a booklet titled 'History of The Dean Orphan Hospital' by Frances Fowle, Edinburgh, 1995
/ Photocopy of a booklet titled 'The Dundee Asylum (1820-2000)' by Rod Mackinnon, Former Senior
Nursing Officer, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital
/ Handwritten list of newspaper article headings in respect of pain/surgery stories along with which
newspaper they were published in between 1846-1847

Dr Stuart W McGowan was a lecturer in Anaesthesia.

Collection consists of books, booklets, media (CD and boxed presentation slides), photographs, copies of pages from books and typed notes in respect of the history of anaesthesia in Dundee and the history of Dundee Royal Infirmary, along with 2 wallet folders titled 'Dr SW McGowan, Anaesthesia' and 'Dr AH Mackin, History of Medicine' containing similar contents.

Folder contains 11 items:

/ Black and white photograph of an unidentified gentleman wearing a suit and tie sitting at a desk holding
a pen [nd]
/ Black and white photograph of an unidentified gentleman wearing a suit and tie sitting holding a book
titled 'nitrous oxide' [nd]
/ Typed notes titled 'SSA History: The Scottish Society of Anaesthetists - Another Look At Its History' by
Stuart McGowan [nd]
/ Photocopy of pages from Scot Med J 1997; 42: 185-187 titled 'Sir James Young Simpson Bart - 150 Years
On' by S.W. McGowan, 1997
/ Booklet titled 'Simpson - the man and his discoveries' by J.R.J. Cameron - in respect of Sir James Young
Simpson [nd]
/ Typed speech titled 'Norman Rollason Memorial Lecture, 3 June 1995 - Coming Of Age' by Dr Stuart
McGowan [nd]
/ A handwritten note titled 'Music while you sleep' on The University Dundee, Department of Anaesthesia,
Royal Infirmary headed paper [nd]
/ Typed notes titled 'The History of Anaesthesia' [nd]
/ Typed notes titled 'The History of Anaesthesia in Dundee (1847 to 1964) - Chapters 1-7'
/ Photocopy of pages from British Journal of Anaesthesia 1998; 80: 96-103 Historical Article titled
'Anaesthesia in the 1920s by P.M.E. Drury
/ Handwritten notes titled '3 great discoveries of 19th Century Vaccinations, Anaesthesia and Antisepsis
[nd]

A photocopy of an article published in the Scottish Medical Journal (Scot Med J 1997: 42; 118-121) by N.J. Wills (Medical Student), Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, University of Dundee.

Article is in respect of Edward Jenner's careful investigation into the usefulness of cowpox vaccination for the prevention of smallpox during the late 1790s, and his enthusiastic and continued advocation of vaccination despite the scepticism of critics, laid the foundations for the growth of understanding about the nature of infectious disease and the development of immunity during the 19th century.

Typed notes in respect of Lord Nuffield announcing that on 23 November 1938, he was prepared to manufacture up to 5,000 Both Respirators in his Morris car factory in Oxford. Lord Nuffield was to gift one of these to any hospital in the British Empire which requested one and that he was wiling to spend half a million pounds to do this.

The notes also include a biography of Edward Thomas Both, inventor of the Both Respirator, born at Caltowie in South Australia and died on 18 November 1987 in Australia after a long illness. Mr Both was one of the most innovative men in the history of instrumentation in Australia and was known generally as E.T. Both, and to his fiends as Ted.

Folder consists of 10 black and white photographs.

/ gentleman standing wearing a suit, tie and a carnation titled 'Dr W.E.A. Buchanan Snr' [nd]
/ gentleman sitting wearing a jumper titled 'Edward Buchanan Jnr' [nd]
/ lady sitting wearing an AMC uniform titled 'Janet Leng' [nd]
/ unidentified gentleman wearing a suit and tie standing in a garden [nd]
/ patient lying on an operating table surrounded by 6 medical staff titled 'Dr James Ferguson, Anaesthetist
Gynee Theatre and Professor Margaret Fairlie O&G, circa 1940-45'
/ gentleman with a beard wearing a suit sitting holding a walking stick [nd] - (photograph appears in the
Booklet titled 'Simpson - the man and his discoveries' by J.R.J. Cameron and identified as Sir James Young
Simpson
/ unidentified group of 5 people standing titled 'The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and
Ireland, Dublin, 1961'
/ unidentified group of 6 people standing with lady in centre holding a book [nd]
/ unidentified group of people standing and sitting with lady in centre sitting holding a book [nd] - small
size
/ unidentified group of people standing and sitting with lady in centre sitting holding a book [nd] - large
size

Folder consists of 3 postcards:

/ titled 'La vaccine au Chateau de Liancourt, Peinture de C. Desbordes, 1812'
/ titled 'Florence Nightingale photographed with Sir Harry Verney, Miss Crossland and a group of \
Nightingale nurses at Claydon House, 1886'
/ titled 'Premiers essais du traitement du cancer par rayons X, Peinture de G. Chicotot, 1908'

Collection of labelled slides in respect of:

/ History of Dundee Royal Infirmary (4 boxes titled 'History of DRI')
/ History of Anaesthesia in Dundee (3 boxes titled 'History of Anaesthesia in Dundee')
/ Anaesthesia (1 box titled 'Rollason')
/ Dr A.H. Macklin (surgeon) accompanying Eric Shackleton on Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expeditions (1 box
titled 'Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge')
/ Both and Drinker's respirators and Bragg-Paul Pulsator (2 boxes titled ' E.T. Both')

A photocopy of an article published in the Scottish Medical Journal (Scot Med J 1997: 42; 122-124) by I.A. Porter and *M.J. Williams, Regional Laboratory, City Hospital, Aberdeen and *Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

Article is in respect of the history of artificial ventilation and the development of the iron lung in the USA by Drinker and his colleagues is discussed.

Volumes 1 to 38 containing proceedings of papers presented at the below meetings along with lists of Council and Officers and attendees:

/ Vol 1&2: Reading (7 June 1986) and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London (7 February 1987)
/ Vol 3: Southend Hospital (6 February 1988)
/ Vol 4: The Holiday Inn, Leicester (17 and 18 June 1988)
/ Vol 5: Mayday Hospital, Croydon (4 February 1989)
/ Vols 6a & 6b: Edinburgh (7 and 8 July 1989)
/ Vol 7: Epsom (3 February 1990)
/ Vols 8a & 8b: Huddersfield (8 and 9 June 1990)
/ Vols 9a & 9b: Rotterdam (31 May and 1 June 1991)
/ Vol 10: Southampton (19 October 1991)
/ Vol 11: Cambridge (7 November 1992)
/ Vol 12: Joint with the Section of Anaesthetics of the Royal Society of Medicine (6 March 1993)
/ Vol 13: Llangollen (25 and 26 March 1993)
/ Vol 14: Birmingham (6 November 1993)
/ Vol 15: Guernsey (24 and 25 June 1994)
/ Vol 16: Joint with the Section of Anaesthetics of the Royal Society of Medicine (10 December 1994)
/ Vol 17: Glasgow (30 June and 1 July 1995)
/ Vol 18: Poole (21 October 1995)
/ Vol 19: Plymouth (28 and 29 June 1996)
/ Vol 20: Joint with The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, The Section of
Anaesthesia and History of Medicine of The Royal Society of Medicine, Westminster (16 January 1997)
/ Vo, 21: Liverpool (27 and 28 June 1997)
/ Vol 22: Leeds (14 February 1998)
/ Vol 23: Southend (26 and 27 June 1998)
/ Vol 24: Paris (23 and 24 October 1998)
/ Vol 25: Joint with The Association of Anaesthetists of the South Western Region and The Anaesthesia
History Association (13 and 15 May 1999)
/ Vol 26: Cambridge (30 October 1999)
/ Vol 27: Leicester (7 and 8 July 2000)
/ Vol 28: Joint with the Royal Society of Chemistry, London (4 November 2000)
/ Vol 29: Edinburgh (29 and 30 June 2001)
/ Vol 30: Norwich (6 and 7 July 2002)
/ Vol 31: Sheffield (9 November 2002)
/ Vol 32: Assembly Rooms, Ludlow (13 and 14 June 2003)
/ Vol 33: Chequer Mead Arts Centre, East Grinstead (8 November 2003)
/ Vol 34: Netherwood Hotel, Grange-over-Sands (2 and 3 July 2004)
/ Vol 35: Liverpool (13 November 2004) and Joint with the Section of Anaesthesia at the RSM (4 March
2005)
/ Vol 36: The Abbey Hotel, Great Malvern (7 and 8 September 2006)
/ Vol 37: West Park Centre, University of Dundee (29 and 30 June 2007)
/ Vol 38: NEIMME, Newcastle-upon-Tyne (10 November 2007)