General Correspondence

File consists of papers and general correspondence related to the seminar on, "Short-course Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis", which was held at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, on 3 February 2004. 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 24 of the Witness Seminar series, D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey (editors), Short-course Chemotherapy for Tuberculosis, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2005).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Professor Denis Mitchison), organisers of the meeting (Dr Owen McCarthy and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

List of attendees, suggested outline of meeting, control sheets concerning feedback on transcripts, publishing permissions 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:

Two tables supplied by Dr Joseph Angel which appeared as figures 2 and 3 in the published volume. One table is titled, "Sputum Conversion in Advanced Pulmonary Tuberculosis on Treatment With 3 Regimens of Chemotherapy". The other table is titled, "Cumulative Percentage of Patients Culture Negative at Each Month During the Course of Drug Treatment".