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1991.0114 [Papers of Leonard J T Murphy]
Date Range of Records: 1984-1985
Creator(s):
- Murphy, Leonard J T [-]
Leonard J.T. Murphy, "Sir Douglas Shields (1876-1952); a Forgotten Surgeon". Based on a paper read at a Meeting of the Medical History Society, Australian Medical Association (Victorian Branch) on 2 September 1983. 46 pp., with photograph of Shields and site of his hospital in Seymour. Photocopy of typescript, bound. Copy of Shields' autobiography and other sources, notes and photographs. Also, items collected for a paper on Dr. Patrick Moloney in Occasional Papers on Medical History Australia 1984, including photographs. Photocopy of Professor R.J. Berry's MS. autobiography, "Chance and Circumstance", with photocopies of letters from Berry to D. Murray Morton, 13 January and 28 October 1954, mentioning the MS and his inability to have it published. A copy was sent to Morton, who passed it to Dr. John Horan, who in turn lent it to Murphy. It covers Berry's life from school days, 1877-1883, to his service as Director of Medical Research in Bristol, and including his period as first Professor of Anatomy at the University of Melbourne, 1906-1929. The last date mentioned is April 1951.
12 cm.
Collection Category: University, individuals
Access Conditions: Access: Open
Finding Aids: No Finding Aid. Request all boxes
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