Dr William Delano Walker personal diaries

A loose leaf diary detailing WD Walker's daily life including study, medical duties, travel and personal routine.

This part of the loose leaf diary indexes WD Walker's medical and surgical case notes.

Individuals, subject matter and locations noted include:

  • index tab "Typhoid". Notes care in diagnosis Dr Hone 11 May 1920. Clinical medicine Dr Hone typhoid 20 March 1924. Diagnosis between Typhoid and appendicitis, Dr Ray. Answers to examination questions on differential diagnosis of typhoid fever

  • Answers to examination questions on typhoid

  • news clippings World Medical Topics pages 5 - 8 and 25 - 26 dated September 1929 Headline "Typhoid fever. Recent observations on its epidemiology, the carrier state, unusual symptoms and oral vaccination". Headline "Unhygenic living conditions and especially improper disposal of human excretion contribute obviously to the spread of typhoid fever". Headline "A sudden fall in temperature cannot be regarded as characteristic of even severe haemorrhage in typhoid fever". Headline "Le Clerc notes that in the early stages of typhoid fever the diagnosis may be difficult, especially in children and adolescents". Headline "The carrier problem is important in communities where the incidence of typhoid has been high for many years". Headline "A study of the intradermal reaction to the typhoid bacillus toxin during an outbreak of the disease in Lyons, has been recently reported"

CreatorDr William Delano Walker
ControlAA 357/4/40/14
Date Range1918  -  1938
Quantity 0.1cm,    
FormatsGeneral Publications, Diaries, Indexes
Series AA357/04