Mss Eur D893

Papers, dated 1894-1973, of and relating to Maj George Lamb (1869-1911), Indian Medical Service 1894-1911, Director of the Pasteur Institute in India 1905-09.

Contains:

ff 1. Certificate of appointment to the Indian Medical Department, 29 Jan 1894.

ff 2 - 4. Offprint W Hanna and G Lamb, "A case of cobra-poisoning treated with Calmette's antivenine", The Lancet (05 Jan 1901); plus newspaper clipping titled "Cures for snakebite. Major Lamb's discovery".

ff 5 - 7. Letters from the Manila Medical Society (1903) and American Climatological Association (1908), electing Lamb to the position of Honorary and Corresponding Member, respectively.

ff 8 - 31. Printed application and testimonials of George Lamb, MD, for the post of Pathologist in the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow.

ff 32 - 35. Typescript list of publications by George Lamb.

ff 36 - 94. Testimonial letters in support of Lamb's application, later printed as part of the official application, received from:

• W T Gairdner, Professor of Medicine, University of Glasgow
• Axel Holst, Professor of Hygiene and Bacteriology, University of Christiana, Norway
• Martin Hahn, Director of Medicine, Munich Hygiene Institute
• William H Welch, Professor of Pathology, John Hopkins University, Baltimore
• Professor D Gaffky, Director of the Institute for Infectious Diseases, Berlin
• D A Calmette
• Sir David Bruce, Member of the Army Medical Advisory Board
• Robert Koch, Royal Institute for Infectious Diseases, Berlin
• Thompson, Department of Public Health, New South Wales
• D Dieudonne
• Professor Emil Gotschlich, Chief Public Health Officer, Alexandria
• A Wasserman, University of Berlin
• S Kitasato, Director of the Institute for the Research of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo
• Paul Ehrlich, Director of the Institute for Experimental Pathology and Therapuetics, Frankfurt
• T H Madsen, Director of the Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen
• Carl. Jul. Salomonsen, Professor of General Pathology, University of Copenhagen
• Simon Flexner, Director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York
• Lieutenant-Colonel W B Leishman, Progessor of Pathology, Royal Army Medical College, London
• John Cleland, Professor of Anatomy, University of Glasgow
• [Manson?] of 21 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square
• Major Ronald Ross, Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool
• George H F Nuttall, Fellow of Magdelene College, Cambridge
• John Rose Bradford, Professor of Medicine, University College, London
• W Bannerman, Bombay Bacteriological Laboratory
• George Dean, Professor of Pathology, University of Aberdeen
• Charles J Martin, Director of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
• Sir Almroth E Wright, Director, Inoculation Department, St Mary's Hospital
• Dr J Simons

ff 95-111. Various obituaries.