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Rencana-Rencanal Arlicles the Library Rencana-Rencanal Arlicles The Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and its Oriental Collections with a Note on the Malay Collection of Manuscripts by Dr. Nigel Allan* ciated with Wellcome's desire to collect objects It was a great pleasure to be invited to speak to the staff of the library of the University of Malaya on illustrating the history of medicine was his keenness to build up a collection of books which would serve the 24th September last about the Wellcome Institute and its library, especially since the Wellcome Institute as a basis for the study of these subjects. is not well-known beyond the limited bounds of Gradually the idea of a museum and book collec- medical history. I was therefore delighted by the tion devoted entirely to the history of medicine and invitation of Mrs. Khoo to contribute my talk to this its allied sciences evolved. In this way, the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum came into being. Well come journal. did not intend to make his historical collection publi- The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medi- cine had its beginnings at the end of the last century cly available until he considered it had reached a satisfactory standard, but when preparations were when the American-born pharmacist, Sir Henry being made for the 17th International Congress of Wellcome came to Britain in 1880 and formed a Medicine to be held in London in 1913, he was asked partnership with another American pharmacist, by certain leaders of the medical profession to show Silas Burroughs, so forming the world famous phar- some of his collection. Wellcome agreed, and the maceutical company, Burroughs Wellcome, of today. exhibition which he held was a tremendous success. Fifteen years later in 1895, Burroughs died leaving After the conclusion of the Congress, Wellcome was Wellcome to carryon the company and develop it requested to make some part of his collection available into an international pharmaceutical firm with to a wider public, and so it was that the Wellcome offices in many parts of the world including Kuala Historical Medical Museum was opened in Wigmore Lumpur. Street and 23 years la~r in 1936, transferred to its After the turn of the century, Well come gradually present building in Euston Road which had been freed himself as much as possible from the routine specially built to house it and is now also occupied of personally conducting his business and turned by the head office of Burroughs Wellcome whose his mind to his interest in the history of pharmacy premises were destroyed during the war.! and the whole history of medicine in general. Asso- "Curator of Oriental Books & M ss, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. I See F.N.L. Poynter, '''The Well come Historical, Medical Museum and Library and its services to research in the History of Medicine", Verhandlungen des XX Internatianalen Kangressesfur der Medizin, Berlin, 22-27 August 1966, Hildesheim, 1968, pp. 411-18 .' Wellcome died in 1936 and under the terms of his Royal Society of Medicine. The collection of western will the Wellcome Foundation ltd. became a unique manuscripts comprises some 5,000 items from the institution. All shares in the Foundation are vested in iOth tu 19th centuries. In addition, the Institute , Trustees who receive the profits declared as dividends. possesses a fine collection of 100,000 autograph These are utilised for the advancement of research in letters including substantial collections of the original medicine and related sciences. The terms of the will letters of Florence Nightingale, Louis Pasteur, Joseph also provided for the establishment of research muse- Lister and other figures prominent in medical history. ums and libraries concerned with the collection of In 1979 the Wellcome Institute established a information connected with the history of medicine Contemporary Medical Archives Centre to encourage and its allied sciences. The Wellcome Trust is now the and help with the preservation of 20th century largest charity in the United Kingdom supporting records, documents and archive collections relating to medical and veterinary research including medical medical care and research in Britain. The archives so history throughout the world to the tune of c.12 mil- far collected reflect all aspects of modern medicine lion pounds sterling per annum. The Library was from laboratory research, clinical practice and public formally opened to the public in December 1949, health to unorthodox and fringe medicine, and so although its basic organisation was not completed the original sources of future medical history will be until 1962. In 1960, the Trustees formally took available in the Well come Institute for scholars of possession of the collection from the Wellcome the 21st century. Foundation lta., and until 1964 the Wellcome His- The iconographic collections comprise over 100,000 torical Medical Museum and the Wellcome Historical drawings, prints and paintings along with exceedingly Medical Library existed side by side in the Wellcome important photographic collections. The subject Building. In 1976 the Trustees decided to give the matter is wide-ranging and includes besides the museum on permanent loan to the nation and practice of medicine, such ancillary arts as alchemy following this the first of two galleries known as the and chemistry, anatomy, microbiology and pharmacy. Wellcome Museum of the History of Medicine was Before moving on to the collections of oriental opened at the Science Museum in December 1980, and manuscripts and books brief mention might be made a further gallery has since been opened. to the American collection. This collection covers the The Library remains to form the centre -of the full range of medical practice in North, Central and Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. It is South America, and the Caribbean from the medicine by no means a closed collection, but actively acquires , of the American Indian to the Europeanised medicine material relating to the work of the Institute as an of the colonial and immediate post-colonial periods. international postgraduate centre- for research in The collection comprises some 600 books and manus- medical history working in close association with the cripts, and a catalogue has recently been published.i' Department of History of Medicine at University All the collections found in the Library represent College London. At the present time the Library is a vertical cross section of the history of civilization acquiring about 2,000 books a year and subscribes to and even mankind. This is ~specially evident by the 220 periodicals. range of subject matter found in the oriental collec- The Library contains about 400,000 printed books, tions. Those responsible for bringing this great 60,000 of these published before 1850, and several collection together realised, that the history of medi- hundred incunabula. One of Well come's aims was to cine could not be studied in isolation from other acquire a copy of every sign ificant printed text of the disciplines as the subject impinges upon all areas of history of western medical science and in this he was culture and civilization. Although much of the collec- almost completely successful.f In addition to half a ting was carried out through agents in various oriental million or so printed books, the Wellcome Institute countries, especially those where Wellcome had busi- has received substantial loan deposits in recent years ness interests, and in the auction rooms of the U.K. from other libraries including 45% of the original and the Continent, a very significant part of the library of the Medical Society of London and some oriental collection was brought together by Dr. Paira 24,000 18th and 19th century books belonging to the Mall who was in Wellcome's employment from 1910 1 See C. Steele, Major llbrarles of the world: a selectlve guide, London, 1976, pp. 179 ff. 3 R.M. Price, An annotated Catalogue of Americana In the Library of the wettcome lnstltute for 'the History of Medicine. London, 1983. 2 to 1926.4 Although only 33 years of age when he varying age.7 The collection of Hebraica also consists first joined Wellcome, he had already achieved a dis- of 115 printed books dating from the 1491 edition tinguished career. He was of Hindu extraction, trained of 'the Canon of Avicenna', published in Naples but in medicine at Munich and became chief medical advi- incomplete - the first printing in any language of ser to the Maharajah of Kapurthala. He then served this celebrated work. The collection of Semitic as an army surgeon in the first Japanese army during language material also includes a few Syriac manu- the Russo-Japanese war (1904/5). He eventually came script fragments and printed books, three Karshuni to Britain becoming a licentiate of the Royal College manuscripts and 24 Ethiopian manuscripts, seventeen of Phvsicians.P As a result of his varied career in of which have been described and published.8 many countries he both spoke and wrote several Three other languages in the collection might be oriental and western languages which was of much briefly mentioned here. First, sixteen manuscripts assistance to Wellcome when developing his oriental and five printed books in Armenian, a description of collections. Dr. Mall spent ten of his sixteen years which will eventually appear in a union catalogue of with Well come in the subcontinent itself collecting Armenian manuscripts in the United Kingdom When . for both the Museum and the Library. As a result, the published. The Library also holds three Coptic manus- Wellcome Institute possesses one of the finest collec- cripts and a Georgian manuscript. tions of Sanskrit manuscripts in Britain and the Before moving on to discuss material relating to largest collection of Hindi manuscripts in Europe.
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