Acknowledgements

The cataloguing of the Manchester Medical Collections was made possible by a grant from the fund for Research Resources for Medical History set up by the Wellcome Trust. We are indebted to the Wellcome Trust for its continuing support for the in The .

Many colleagues and friends have helped to bring this volume to completion.We are grateful to all the contributors for their patience and forbearance during the long editing process. Dr Dorothy Clayton guided us expertly through the production of the volume and took much of the pain from that process. Many of the papers feature images taken from the JRUL collections and we would like to thank Carol Burrows for help with the selection and production of these illustrations.

We are grateful to the following for permission to reproduce images: L'Institut Pasteur, p. 102; Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre, Central Library, Ashton-under-Lyne, pp. 89, 105; The Royal Society, p. 159; The Medical Illustration Unit, Manchester Royal Infirmary, pp. 170, 172, 177, 178, 180; Anthony Bentley, Scientific Photographer, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, pp. 217, 218, 219 and 220. All other illustrations were taken from the collections held by the John Rylands University Library.

John Pickstone Stella Butler

7 Contributors

Julie Anderson is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the ,Technology and Medicine and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at The University of Manchester. Her areas of research include the history of disability and she has published on physical disability and war. She is currently completing a book with Francis Neary and on the history of hip replacement.

Stella Butler joined The John Rylands University Library as Head of Special Collections in 2000 after a period working as a consultant to historic libraries and museums. She has published on the history of medical education in the nineteenth century as well as the history of health services in Manchester in the eighteenth century, the work of James Prescott Joule on thermodynamics and the history of microscopy. She is currently working on a biographical study of the orthopaedic surgeon, Sir .

Elizabeth Gow is currently working at The John Rylands University Library as Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts and Archives. She has catalogued the institutional archives relating to the John Rylands Library. She was archivist for the project funded by the Wellcome Trust to catalogue the Manchester Medical Collections. Before this she worked at The John Rylands University Library and at Guildhall Library, before gaining an M.A. in Archives Administration from Liverpool University in 2002.

Vanessa Heggie is currently working in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at The University of Manchester, on a Wellcome-funded project researching ‘The history of sports medicine in twentieth-century Britain’. The paper in this issue is drawn from her 2004 Ph.D. — ‘Re-imagining the healthy social body: medicine, welfare and health reform in Manchester 1880–1910’.

W.A. (Bill) Jackson is a pharmacist who, after retiring, obtained an M.Sc. by research on the ‘Invention and history of the stomach pump’. He then spent six years as Keeper of Collections for The University of Manchester Medical School Museum. He is a Fellow 9