Fonds consists of autographed signed letter from Workman to John Auld of Montreal on Workman’s engraved stationery (Matthews lithographer), 25 November 1852.
The collection consists of various documents, photographs, and audio and video recordings generated by the official activities of the Bethune Foundation; also included are documents, publications and photographs related to Dr. Bethune and to China or Chinese medicine, pamphlets, posters, and Bethune Foundation newsletters.
File consists of reproductions of photographs and negatives depicting staff and students of the Bishop's Medical and Dental Faculty, originally taken by Elizabeth Hearn Milner. These images were included in her book, "Bishop's Medical Faculty, Montreal, 1871-1905: including the affiliated dental college, 1896-1905," published in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1985 and available in McGill's library catalogue.
Fonds comprised of two envelopes addressed to Mr. Alex Sherman, Plum Hollow, Ontario , postmarked March 27, 1912 and February 26, 1913, and containing promotional advertisement materials for Bodi-Tone medicine. Included are "cured" patient testimonials, details on how to mail-order a box of Bodi-Tone medicine, and a signed letter from Bodi-Tone President, Sidney S. David. Fonds also includes purchase the receipt from Alexander Books, Ancaster, Ontario.
The fonds documents mainly Babkin's professional interests in physiology, especially glandular secretions and the nervous system. The fonds contains correspondence; lecture notes; citations; research notes and papers, including manuscripts sent to him by his colleagues; reprints of scientific articles mainly in Russian; and material used in the preparation of the biography of Ivan Pavlov. The latter contains correspondence with Ivan Petrovich Pavlov and members of his family, 1923-1948; photographs and portraits; and an unabridged typescript copy of Parts 1-3 of Pavlov: a Biography, with manuscript corrections, 1943-1946.
Fonds documents Burton Chance's links with Casey A. Wood from 1922 until Wood's death in 1942. The fonds contains correspondence between the two men, reprints of C.A. Wood and letters from various correspondents concerning C.A. Wood.
File consists of a copy of the "Biographical Sketch of Dr. Rohrer," authored by Rohrer's wife and originally published in his 1909 PhD thesis, "A Contribution to the Comparative Anatomy of the Prostate Gland," available in McGill's library catalogue. It also contains a manuscript of Rohrer's poems, "Sir William Osler, Bart. (1849-1919)," as well as printed versions of the poems in three editions: the original 1921 edition (signed by Pedhammok), the 1922 edition, and the Memorial 1929 edition.
The collection shows Dr. Casey Wood's interest for ophthalmology, especially in the history of ophthalmology but also for medicine in the countries he visited, among them Ceylon. The collection contains rough copies of published articles or planned papers on these subjects. Ayurvedic medicine is a major interest. The collection also contains three versions of the "Descriptive catalogue of the Casey A. Wood Collection of Sinhalese Materia Medica for the Museum of McGill University".
Fonds documents Dr. Cecil O. Walsh's activities mainly as a medical student at McGill University but also during his service overseas as a medical officer with the CAMC during World War I. The fonds contains notebooks on Nutrition, Physiology, Histology, Clinical Microscopy, Bacteriology, Practical Zoology, Medical Jurisprudence, Clinical Medicine, Mental Diseases, Clinical Surgery and Hygiene; printed exams intructions and notes on duty at war.
