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Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

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A Manuscript Note-book, c 1681-c 1693

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3975
Scope and Contents

Notes on precious stones, colours, temperatures, salts, medical matters, alchemy and other subjects, in English and Latin.

Dates: c 1681-c 1693
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton/1 with the exception of MS.Add.4007, which is open for consultation by holders of a Reader's Ticket valid for the Manuscripts Reading Room.
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Accounts of the Cambridge University Medical Society, 1922 - 1973

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/SOC.70
Scope and Contents From the Management Group:

The category - Student administration and support records - comprises records relating to student admissions at all levels, graduate students, visiting senior scholars, student careers advice and welfare, together with the records of clubs and societies.

Dates: 1922 - 1973
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Accupuncture: General, 1947-03-01 - 1993-03

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/279
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1947-03-01 - 1993-03
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Acupuncture, 1959-05-26 - 1992

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/280
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1959-05-26 - 1992
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Acupuncture: Analgesia, physiological rationale, 1950-04 - 1987-12-20

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/285
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1950-04 - 1987-12-20
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Acupuncture: Bibliographical materials, 1960 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/281
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1960 - 1979
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Acupuncture: Correspondence, 1955-02-16 - 1991-10-19

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/290
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1955-02-16 - 1991-10-19
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Acupuncture: Correspondence found in Joseph Needham's room at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, after his death in 1995, 1978 - 1989

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/291
Scope and Contents

Most of the material relates to an article by Joseph Needham and Lu Gwei-Djen entitled 'A Scientific Basis for Acupuncture?', ('The Sciences', Journal of the New York Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., 1979). The article is the pre-publication of extracts from Lu and Needham's, 'Celestial Lancets: History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxibustion', (1980).

Dates: 1978 - 1989
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Acupuncture: Documents found in Joseph Needham's room at the Needham Research Institute after his death in 1995, 1970 - 1985

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/289
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1970 - 1985
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Acupuncture: History, 1942 - 1987-09-23

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/282
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1942 - 1987-09-23
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Acupuncture: Material relating to Lu Gwei-Djen and Joseph Needham, 'Celestial Lancets: History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxibustion', (Cambridge University Press,1980), 1976 - 1985

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/292
Scope and Contents

The material was found in Joseph Needham's room at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, following his death in 1995.

Dates: 1976 - 1985
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Acupuncture: Meeting of the Medical Acupuncture Association in Bristol, 7 May 1977, 1976-11-17 - 1977

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/294
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1976-11-17 - 1977
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Acupuncture sessions with Chhiu Yin-Chhing [邱殷慶 / Qiu Yinqing / E. C. Chew] and Janet Plummer, Hong Kong, April/May 1974, 1962 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/286
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1962 - 1979
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Acupuncture: Transmissions, Asia and Europe; Vital Spots, 1943-05-13 - 1992-04-15

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/287
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1943-05-13 - 1992-04-15
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Acupuncture: Western clinical experiments, 1945 - 1994

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/284
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1945 - 1994
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Alexius Pedemontanus: Secrets

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3543
Scope and Contents

Recipes taken from the 'Secretes' in the English translation of William Warde (London, 1558). At fo. 66v is a Latin recipe in the main hand, and at fo. 67 recipes in another hand, continued at the foot of 66v. At fo. 67v is yet another recipe in a crude 17th cent. hand, also to be found in scribblings inside the back cover. fo. 68: wanting.

Dates: 1590 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Archives of the Faculty of Biology 'B', 1906 - 1992

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/BIOL B
Scope and Contents

The records cover the full range of operations,

Dates: 1906 - 1992
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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'Celestial Lancets': Prelims, bibliographies and abbreviations, 1970 - 1979

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/293
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1970 - 1979
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Chemical Observations and Related Notes

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5978
Scope and Contents

A series of descriptions of, and observations on, various chemical experiments, fos 1-67, with an index at fos 77v-79r. This is followed by medical recipes written in another hand, fos 68-76 and 84v, the last of which is dated 1706. On fo. 1 in the second hand is 'John Fry / Wooburne / Beddfordshire', and opposite in the same hand 'Hic Liber est meus'. Most of the versos are blank. Loose in the book are accounts on a slip of paper dated 6 April [17]74.

Dates: 1700-1774 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access: 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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Current smallpox, 1970 - 1986-06-22

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/302
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1970 - 1986-06-22
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Diaries compiled by Lionel and Ethel Whitby, 1943 - 1956

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Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/WHI/2/3
Scope and Contents Mainly during foreign or academic tours. Although Lady Whitby accompanied Sir Lionel on some trips after the end of the Second World War, some of these diaries were written for each other, when separated by foreign travel and work, with the intention that they could read them when reunited. The diaries cover the latter part of the Second World War, when Dr Whitby was Commanding Officer of the Army Blood Transfusion Service, and his time as Regius Professor of Physic at the University of...
Dates: 1943 - 1956
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Generally open.
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Documents relating the establishment of a programme for the study of the history of medicine at the University of Cambridge in association with The Wellcome Trust, 1969-10 - 1977-01

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/318
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1969-10 - 1977-01
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Documents relating to Joseph Needham's contribution to 'A Social History of the Bio-Medical Sciences' edited by Dr. Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini of Franco Maria Ricci, Milan, Italy, 1979 - 1983-01-17

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/314
Scope and Contents

Joseph Needham contributed his 3 articles with Lu Gwei-Djen entitled 'China and the Origins of Immunology', 'Hygiene and Preventaive Medicine in China' and 'China and Origin of Examinations in Medicine'.

Dates: 1979 - 1983-01-17
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Documents relating to Joseph Needham's lecture on entitled 'China and the Origins of Immunology', given as the University of Hong Kong's first Dr. S. T. Huang-Chan Memorial Lecture, 1978-10-02 - 1983-12-10

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/304
Scope and Contents

The lecture was given in Hong Kong in November 1979. It was published by the University in 1980 and an abridged version was published in 'Eastern Horizon', 1 January 1980.

Dates: 1978-10-02 - 1983-12-10
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Documents relating to Joseph Needham's participation in a Symposium on 'Medicine and Culture' organised by the Werner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and the Wellcome Trust, London, September 1966, 1965-11-24 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/1928/NRI/SCC2/312
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds:

This series contains files on each topic set out in Joseph Needham's grand plan for 'Science and Civilisation in China'.

Dates: 1965-11-24 - 1969
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