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A remarkable man
We recently received, from his granddaughter’s executor, a couple of manuscripts of Colonel Frederick Smith (1858-1933) of the Royal Army Medical Corps. When cataloguing these, and turning to the usual sources of reference for information on his career, I discovered… Continue reading
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The ‘Convalescent Blues’ in Frederick Cayley Robinson’s ‘Acts of Mercy’
by Jeffrey S. Reznick PhD The four paintings of the Acts of Mercy by Frederick Cayley Robinson, now in the Wellcome Library, were painted between 1915 and 1920. Cayley Robinson derived his subjects from a variety of sources. A brass plaque… Continue reading
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Cayley Robinson’s “Acts of Mercy”: more new information
The above photograph of one of the four Acts of Mercy paintings by Frederick Cayley Robinson, now in the Wellcome Library, was taken in the Middlesex Hospital in 2006 by Dr Jeffrey S. Reznick. Dr Reznick is Deputy Chief of… Continue reading
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Armistice Day
To mark Armistice Day, we have chosen one item from the Wellcome Library’s diverse collections pertaining to military medicine: the diary of Captain Martin Wentworth Littlewood, Royal Army Medical Corps, British Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.). Littlewood’s diary (MSS.8025–8026) relates his experiences… Continue reading