Correspondence and papers relating to the Department of Surgery. The department was based at M.R.I. and was headed during the period covered by this file by Professor Alexander Boyd (1905-1973). Most of the material is routine but there is some interesting correspondence from 1957 about Boyd's interest in the use of ultrasonics in surgery. There are papers concerning Richard Jepson (d.1980)'s unsuccessful application for the Nuffield chair of surgery at Oxford in 1954,
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