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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:

  • news clippings Current topics in the specialities pages 21 - 22 Headline "Stramonium in the sequelae of epidemic encephaliitis". Headline "Parathyroid extract in eclampsia". Headline "Neoarsphenamine in the treatment of lichen planus. Headline "Short cuts and brevities" psittacosis, Dr Innocencio Galindo. Advertisment for Thialion by The Vass Chemical Co

  • news clippings The British Medical Journal pages 245 - 246 dated 16 August 1930 Headline "Tetany after exercise: A clinical and chemical study of a case" by RD Lawrence, RA McCance. Headline "Experimental investigation". Headline "Discussion". Headline "Summary"

  • 8 page booklet "Recent studies concerning the metabolism of phosphorus" heavily underlined and annotated, Smith, Kline & French Laboratories

  • news clippings The Medical Journal of Australia pages 177 - 178 dated 7 February 1931 Headline "Biological chemistry. Vitamin B and carbohydrate metabolism" Samuel Lepovsky, Clarence Wood, Herbert M Evans. Headline "Blood cholesterol content". Headline "The effect of meat diet on kidney function" Walter S McClellan, Eugene F Du Bois. Headline "The effect of a meat diet on the metabolism of calcium and phosphorus" Walter S McClellan, Virgil R Rupp, Vincent Toscani. Headline "Special articles on diagnosis. The causes oif obesity" Oliver Wendell Holmes. Headline "Points for consideration in the diagnosis of the cause of obesity"

  • 4 page flyer "An efficient, palatable and readily assimilable presentation of the glycerophosphates. Neuro Phosphates (Eskay Brand)" heavily underlined and annotated, Smith, Kline & French Laboratories

CreatorDr William Delano Walker
ControlAA 357/4/42/14
Date Range1918  -  1938
Quantity 0.1cm,    
FormatsGeneral Publications, Diaries, Indexes
Series AA357/04
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