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Head, Henry, 1861-1940 (neurologist)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1861 - 1940

Biography

Head, Henry (1861-1940) neurologist. Wife Ruth (d.1939), née Mayhew

Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:

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Journal, 13 Dec. 1926-11 Mar. 1927 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/24
Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1926-27-I' and mostly comprises diary entries. These include passages on: /27r. showing American publisher Crosby Gaige the manuscript of [Wilfred] Owen's poems; /34r-34v. a visit from Robert Graves; /43v-44r. 'My Landlord' (about Harold Speed); /44v-45v. anecdotes about poets W.B. Yeats and Wordsworth told to him by Edmund Gosse; /54v-67r. visits to Ruth and Henry Head and to Thomas Hardy at Max Gate; /79r. reflections on his influence on Wilfred...
Dates: 13 Dec. 1926-11 Mar. 1927 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
Conditions Governing Access: This notebook has been digitised and can be viewed in full on the Cambridge Digital Library. The original item is currently unavailable for consultation due to its poor physical condition.
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Letter, 1922-1931 (circa; undated)

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9877/1/1/25
Scope and Contents

Concerning Sassoon visiting Henry and Ruth Head and family news.

Dates: 1922-1931 (circa; undated)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter addressed from the King's Arms Hotel, Dorchester, 15 Jan. 1927

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8483/18
Scope and Contents

Concerning Crosby Gaige, and waiting to hear if 'B.R.' [Bruce Rogers] would print his poems; Sassoon becoming stand-offish and philosophical; also giving news of Henry Head (now an invalid) and 'T.H.' [Thomas Hardy] (venerates Hardy above all living and most dead writers).

Dates: 15 Jan. 1927
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter (King's Arms Hotel, Dorchester), 14 Jan. 1927 (date inferred; marked 'Friday evening')

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/55
Scope and Contents

Giving news of a trip to Dorchester and of visits to Thomas Hardy and to Ruth and Henry Head.

Dates: 14 Jan. 1927 (date inferred; marked 'Friday evening')
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter (King's Arms Hotel, Dorchester), 16 Jan. 1927 (date inferred; marked 'Tuesday')

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/56
Scope and Contents

Giving news of a trip to Dorchester including time spent with Thomas Hardy and Henry and Ruth Head.

Dates: 16 Jan. 1927 (date inferred; marked 'Tuesday')
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter to Head about how to make spatial references using Ancient Greek words; letter-headed 'Arts Club, Dover Street', No year given, but 'September 12' written at the top of the letter.

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/3/3
Scope and Contents

The term 'acuaesthesia', written in large letters in this note, is listed as a term in the index for the experiment log (WHRivers/2/4/6).

Dates: No year given, but 'September 12' written at the top of the letter.
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Letter to Siegfried Sassoon from 'H.R.H.' [Henry & Ruth Head] (Hartley Court, near Reading) enclosing an advertisement for the Arthur Skemp Memorial Lecture, 13 Nov. 1938

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/8/1/1-2
Scope and Contents

Thanking Sassoon for his letter and commenting on the originality of his proposed lecture at Bristol.

Dates: 13 Nov. 1938
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters from Henry Head and Ruth Head née Mayhew (London; Forston House, near Dorchester; Hartley Court, near Reading) to Siegfried Sassoon re comments on Sassoon's books, mutual friends, Henry's health etc, 11 June 1922-26 Aug. 1937 (11 Jun 1922; 19 February, 8 March 1926; 22 March, 29 April, 24 May 1927; 26 March, 7, 8, 22 April, 4, 25 May, 28, 30 Jun 1929; 1, 2 August, 19 September 1930; 30 Jul, 2, 3, 11 September 1936; 26 August 1937)

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9375/364-386
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A collection of 1094 letters, postcards and other items known as 'Sassoon's residual correspondence' although it does also include a number of items addressed to other persons particularly to his wife, Hester, and his mother, Theresa Thornycroft.

Dates: 11 June 1922-26 Aug. 1937 (11 Jun 1922; 19 February, 8 March 1926; 22 March, 29 April, 24 May 1927; 26 March, 7, 8, 22 April, 4, 25 May, 28, 30 Jun 1929; 1, 2 August, 19 September 1930; 30 Jul, 2, 3, 11 September 1936; 26 August 1937)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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On the connexion between the rate of stimulation and the number of shocks needful to produce a reflex action, 190710

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/JWard/1/17
Scope and Contents

This collection of notes includes a description of an experiment, a diagram as well as a photograph of some apparatus and a graph representing data. A scrap of data print-out included in this collection has the name 'H. Head' (Henry Head) written on the back with the date, October 1907. This suggests a connection with the experiment carried out by W. H. R. Rivers on Head's arm.

Dates: 190710
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Photograph of Head's forearm and hand resting on a clamp, palm and thumb pointing downwards, 19031214

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/32
Scope and Contents

Head's thumb has been drawn on in ink, but there are also pen markings added onto the photograph labelling different parts of the thumb in red ink with lettering.

Dates: 19031214
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand, palm and thumb pointing downwards, 19050605

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/56
Scope and Contents

A grid has been drawn on Head's hand in ink, with dots arranged within the grid to show the arrangement of nerve endings beneath the skin.

Dates: 19050605
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand, resting on a clam, with palm and thumb pointing downwards, 19031026

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/15
Scope and Contents

Head's arm has been drawn on with ink markings to show the location of nerves beneath the skin, and the words 'Line of change' written twice following the wavy lines that show the area under investigation.

Dates: 19031026
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand resting on a clamp, palm and thumb facing downwards, 19060311

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/60
Scope and Contents

A grid has been drawn in ink on Head's hand to show the location of nerve endings beneath the skin, with dots arranged within the grid to show their position.

Dates: 19060311
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand resting on a clamp, palm and thumb facing downwards and with many ink markings drawn on the skin, The date 'July 4' is written beneath the photograph but no year is given.

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/63
Scope and Contents

The ink markings on the skin show the location of nerve endings throughout the area.

Dates: The date 'July 4' is written beneath the photograph but no year is given.
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand resting on a clamp, palm and thumb pointing downwards, 19031123

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/25
Scope and Contents

There are ink markings on Head's skin showing the area of investigation and the location of nerve endings.

Dates: 19031123
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand resting on a clamp, palm and thumb pointing downwards, 19040113

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/34
Scope and Contents

Head's arm and hand have been drawn on with ink to mark location of nerve endings beneath the skin.

Dates: 19040113
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand resting on a clamp, palm and thumb pointing downwards, 19050213

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/45
Scope and Contents

There are various ink markings drawn on Head's arm and hand to show the location of nerves beneath the skin, and a grid with dots inside.

Dates: 19050213
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand resting on a clamp, palm and thumb pointing downwards, 19050521

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/50
Scope and Contents

There are ink markings on the photograph in red and blue ink. Beneath the photograph, on the card mount, are written the words: 'Red= loss of light touch; Blue= line of change to Prick'.

Dates: 19050521
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand resting on a clamp, palm facing away from the camera and thumb pointing upwards, 19050522

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/53
Scope and Contents

A grid patterm has been drawn on Head's hand in ink with dots arranged withink it to show the location of nerves beneath the skin.

Dates: 19050522
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand resting on a clamp, palm facing away from the camera and thumb pointing upwards, 19031214

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/31
Scope and Contents

Head's thumb has been drawn on in ink, but there are also pen markings added onto the photograph labelling different parts of the thumb in red ink with lettering.

Dates: 19031214
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand resting on a clamp, palm facing away from the camera and thumb pointing upwards, 19050521

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/51
Scope and Contents

There are ink markings on the photograph in red and blue ink. Beneath the photograph, on the card mount, are written the words: 'Red= loss of light touch; Blue= line of change to Prick'.

Dates: 19050521
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand resting on a clamp, palm facing the camera and thumb pointing upwards, No year is given, but 'July 4' is written on the card mount underneath the photograph.

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/68
Scope and Contents

There are ink markings drawn on the skin of Head's arm and thumb to indicate the location of nerve endings.

Dates: No year is given, but 'July 4' is written on the card mount underneath the photograph.
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Photograph of Head's forearm (extended) and hand resting on a clamp, palm facing towards the camera and thumb pointing upwards, 19031214

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Reference Code: GBR/3377/WHRivers/2/2/33
Scope and Contents

Head's arm and hand have been drawn on with ink to show location of nerve endings beneath the skin.

Dates: 19031214
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Neurology 89
Sensory systems 80
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