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CONTENTS: The minutes of the meetings of the Bournemouth and South Western branch of the Incorporated Society of Chiropodists, from its inception in 1927 to February 1944. The volume was kept by chiropodist F. Paul French of Bournemouth, and there are several pieces of ephemera relating to his career laid-in.
The notebooks are comprised of handwritten entries, in several different inks and hands - while most of these are easy to read, the occasional few are harder to decipher. The first volume covers 1927-38, and from about the halfway point includes typewritten slips tipped or laid in describing the minutes of the last meeting, the current agenda, and any reports, lectures delivered, film clips played, or other business.
The ephemera includes a letter informing French that he passed his exams to become a member of the Council of the Incorporated Society of Chiropodists, receipts for contributions French made to the Society in 1920-1, a copy of an obituary written by French about F.W. Windebank, with whom French (and two other chiropodists) established the first Department of Chiropody in a British hospital in 1929 (Windebank signs off on many of the minutes in this volume), a 1928 newspaper clipping about the Society luncheon, a tipped-in copy of the Society rules from 1932, and notes on the establishment of the Bournemouth branch of the Society, and its aims.
The second volume covers 1938-44, and continues the meetings through the war years, though perhaps understandably, the meetings are much further apart (there are just 37 pages of notes covering the period).
The ephemera includes four laid-in dinner cards (hand-coloured) for Society events, lecture notes for several talks given by French between 1936 and 1962, including 'Care of the Feet' given by French in 1936, and another given in 1948 (on the sweat glands of the feet) as well as several newspaper clippings providing information on the activities of the society dated from 1969 and 1970, and a letter from 1974 which shows that French was still a member of the Society nearly 50 years after its inception.
A unique work, likely to be of interest to specialist local history or medical scholars.
[This book comes from the private collection of chiropodial and podiatric literature amassed by eminent chiropodist J. Colin Dagnall. His collection was one of the largest of its kind in the world.
Colin Dagnall trained at the London Foot Hospital in the late 1940s, and spent almost 50 years in private practice. Editor of the British Journal of Chiropody for many years, he was also an active member of many of his profession's governing bodies.
Many of the books contain the doctor's bookplates and private library cards, inscriptions from and to other prominent figures in the profession, and loose ms. notes. Where appropriate, we have noted these in the description, and left all such ephemera in situ as it came to us.
Please browse our other auctions for more books from this collection.]
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