Letter to Captain Thomas Boswall Beach
- Date:
- 4 January 1892
- Reference:
- MS.6196
- Part of:
- Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron (1827-1912), and the Lister family
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Letter from Lister to Captain Thomas Boswall Beach, RAMC, concerning the best form of ligature for the treatment of popliteal aneurysm, with enclosures of knotted string and catgut. As illustrated in Charles Singer and E A Underwood, A short history of medicine, 2nd edn (Oxford, 1962), plate xvii.
Publication/Creation
4 January 1892
Physical description
1 file
Acquisition note
Acquired from Col. T B Beach for the 1927 Lister Centenary Exhibition at the Wellcome Museum.
Finding aids
Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores