Description
"This is an unpublished collection of miscellaneous papers on the history of St. Bartholomew's, [assembled by Norwich surgeon
Charles Noon]. Some are probably Noon's own work, such as a typed list of the physicians and surgeons of the hospital through
history, while others are typescripts by Noon of published works by others -- for instance, 'Extracts from On the Education
Character and Practice of a Surgeon-Apothecary', a book published in 1767 by James Lucas. Also bound in is a first edition
extract from Charles Dickens's journal Household Words, an article on St. Bartholomew's called 'Twenty-Four Hours in a London
Hospital' (Feb. 8th 1851, No. 46), written not by Dickens himself but by Frederick Knight Hunt, surgeon and founder of the
Medical Times (Lohri, pp. 73 and 321). Also included is the prospectus for the hospital for 1911-12, which comes with an attractive
folding map, a brochure for the 1939 Mansion House appeal for the rebuilding of St. Bart's., and a collection of aphorisms
by the consulting surgeon R. Cozens Bailey, including such gems as: 'If the Archbishop of Canterbury showed me a tongue like
that I'd say it was syphilis'. Noon's handwritten contents page refers to nine works, but there are at least eleven bound
in, with other unreferenced cuttings."--Antiquarian bookseller's description, 2013. Also included is a typescript from 1945
of Reginald M. Vick's 'The changing face of Bart's: an address delivered to the Abernethian Society at the opening meeting
of the 150th session of the society."