C M Wenyon (WBSR) and R A O'Brien (WPRL)

In reverse order, letters from 15 July, 1925, to 4 December, 1925.

Includes:
correspondence relating to a refusal to approve WPRL "as a pathological institute for the purpose of the examination of specimens taken under the Tuberculosis Order of 1925" (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 22 September);
draft for approval, J W Trevan, "The micrometer syringe" (28 October);
draft for approval, C C Okell and H J Parish, "Virulence testing of the diphtheria bacillus" (28 October);
"Diary of Dr O'Brien's Continental Visit - September and October, 1925" - "I feel it is of the greatest value to a laboratory such as ours to be in contact with the very large number of men and the very large volume of work which is being done in Central Europe" (4 sheets, 12 October);
communication (marked "Private" - initials OBR and GH) on the intention to change the composition of "Ernutin": "Would it not serve the purpose of giving the practitioner full information without endangering your output if you prominently call the attention of every user of 'Ernutin' to the fact that, owing to representation by pharmacologists, you had decided to add a pure salt of Ergotoxin, the only characteristic alkaloid of Ergot, to 'Ernutin', and that presumably the oxytocic [sic] action would thereby be considerably improved?" (25 August) - see related letter (5 February, 1925) from O'Brien to G Pearson in WF/WBSR/05/03;
two newspaper cuttings (11 August, Daily Express and Evening Standard) on Miss H Bainbridge, WPRL: "Home Office returns issued yesterday show that during last year 21,424 operations on living animals were performed by a woman...".

1925

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