Lecture notes of Stephen James Lake Taylor (1910-1988)

Scope and Content

Two sets of lecture notes from St Thomas's Hospital. The first four volumes (vols. 1, 3-5; 2 is missing) are letter size with black binding containing lecture notes on anatomy, including pasted-in, printed text-book extracts and illustrations with annotations, handwritten notes and hand-drawn, coloured drawings. The second set of three volumes in 1976 brown bindings consists of fair copies of lecture notes on medicine and surgery, pathology, obstetrics and other special topics presented as a 'book'. The frontispiece to the medicine volume includes title, author, updated qualifications, date and place of 'publication', and details of binding. The volumes contain extensive hand-written notes, hand-drawn, coloured illustrations and diagrams, pasted-in letters, photographs, illustrations and cartoons, including of members of the medical faculty at St Thomas's Hospital.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Cambridge University Medical Library

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