General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the seminar on, "Childhood Asthma and Beyond", which was held at the Wellcome Institute on 4 April 2000. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 11 of the Witness Seminar series, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey (editors), Childhood Asthma and Beyond, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2001).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Professor Simon Godfrey), organisers of the meeting (Dr Chris O'Callaghan and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

List of attendees, suggested outline of meeting, control sheets concerning feedback on transcripts and marketing leaflets for the meeting.

Handwritten notes and copies of e-mails regarding the organisation of the meeting and notes between the organisers and editors regarding the transcript and accommodating people's comments.

Documents include;

A press cutting from The daily Telegraph titled "Child Asthma Not Linked to Cats and Dust", dated 20 October 2000.

Handouts from the meeting including; a figure titled, "Conditions for Selective Topical Anti-inflammatory steroid activity in the lungs"; a figure titled, "The New Glaxo-Allenburys Treatment of Asthma"; tables of principal asthma remedies in 1948, 1962 and 1995; and a slide on, "Effects of N-substitution on Selectivity of Action of Catechol and Saligenin Ethanolamines".