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 "Diabetes"

  • post card "London County Council Public Health Department. The 'Line ration' diet scheme"

  • news clippings uncited pages 9 - 16 dated 7 October 1931 Headline "A lecture on diabetes. Medical" by Sir William Willcox. Hampstead General Hospital. Headline "Practical points of diagnosis and treatment in medicine. Venesection" by K Shirley Smith

  • 4 foolscap pages on Department of Inspector General of Hospitals letterhead "Diabetic card. Table 1. Foods arranged approximately, according to percentage of carbohydrate". Articles disabetes

  • news clipping The New England Journal of Medicine dated 14 November 1929 pages 5 - 6 Headline "World medical topics. Diabetic comas - then and now" by Reginald Fitz, Harvard Medical School. Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Headline "The fasting treatment of acidosis". Headline "Dispetic coma after insulin"

  • news clipping World Medical Topics dated October 1929 Headline "Use of glucose intravenously" Virginia Mason Hospital

  • news clipping World Medical Topics dated February 1930 pages 25 - 26 Headline "Diabetic coma - then and now". Headline "The method of action of insulin in coma". Headline "The prognosis of diabetic coma" features a photograph of an unidentified woman. Headline "Current news clippings" Yucatan

  • news clipping Clinical Exerpts undated pages 37 - 38 Headline "Sionon for diabetic children" University Children's Hospital Berlin. Reverse Headline "Pyramidon in measles" Sir Thomas Horder, St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal

  • news clipping The British Medical Journal dated 14 July 1934 pages 57 - 60 Headline "After treatment". Headline "Conclusion". Headline "High carbohydrate diets and insulin efficiency" by HP Himsworth. Headline "Theoretical objections to high carbohydrate diet". Headline "Practical experience". Headline "The Staub-Traugott phenomenon". Headline "Methods employed". Headline "Results". Headline "Discussion of experimental findings". Headline "Clinical significance of the results" Dr JW Trevan, Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories, Miss EM Marshall

CreatorDr William Delano Walker
ControlAA 357/4/40/2
Date Range1918  -  1938
Quantity 0.1cm,    
FormatsNewspaper Clippings, General Publications, Diaries, Indexes
Series AA357/04