Medicine, Nursing and related subjects
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Medicine, Nursing and related subjects
Archives & Special Collections preserve a wide variety of rare or unique historical documents, books and images spanning 500 years of the history of medicine and the life sciences, dentistry, nursing, nutrition and psychiatry.
The Foyle Special Collections Library holds the historical library collections of King's College Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' medical schools and the Institute of Psychiatry, as well as a wide variety medical material in other collections. Institutional records held include the papers of King's College Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' medical schools and a collection of more than a thousand volumes of detailed patient case notes from Victorian London.
Research notes and experimental data are also represented - notably the groundbreaking discovery of the DNA double helix in the early 1950s.
To browse our catalogues and for information on visiting and using the holdings please visit the Archives & Special Collections section of the King's website.
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