Collection consists of four documents about nineteenth-century medical services in Quebec. The first is a draft letter dated December 31, 1847, written in Quebec by a physician who requests that the recipient, likely the Governor’s secretary, submit his application for the position of doctor at the Quebec Gaol and House of Corrections to the Governor. This correspondence follows the death of Dr. Farques, who died twenty days earlier. The author notes that he had assumed most responsibilities for an extended period due to Dr. Farques’ illness. The draft contains multiple pencil corrections.

The second document is a letter from Dr. James Fisher (d. 1922) to the Quebec Garrison surgeon, providing a testimonial regarding a head wound sustained by Louis Fortier. Dr. Fisher states that he is unable to offer a prognosis, as head wounds are inherently unpredictable in their outcomes. The letter is signed by James Fisher, Garrison Surgeon, Quebec, on January 12, 1796, and is sworn before J. Blackwood, Justice of the Peace.

The third document is a French-language draft petition dated January 26, 1820, regarding the opening of the institution for the mentally disturbed and orphans. It is addressed to “Son Honneur James Monk, Ecuier, President administrant le Gouvernement du Bas-Canada.” The docket reads: “Projet de Requete presentee a Son Hoheur le President pour les personnes derangees dans leur Esprit & les enfants abandonnes, par les Commissaires.” The paper bears the watermark W. Turner & Son and contains pencil corrections.

The fourth document is a receipt for medical services, dated May 3, 1876, in Montreal.

Fonds consists of autographed signed letter from Workman to John Auld of Montreal on Workman’s engraved stationery (Matthews lithographer), 25 November 1852.

The fonds documents mainly Babkin's professional interests in physiology, especially glandular secretions and the nervous system. The fonds contains correspondence; lecture notes; citations; research notes and papers, including manuscripts sent to him by his colleagues; reprints of scientific articles mainly in Russian; and material used in the preparation of the biography of Ivan Pavlov. The latter contains correspondence with Ivan Petrovich Pavlov and members of his family, 1923-1948; photographs and portraits; and an unabridged typescript copy of Parts 1-3 of Pavlov: a Biography, with manuscript corrections, 1943-1946.

Fonds documents Burton Chance's links with Casey A. Wood from 1922 until Wood's death in 1942. The fonds contains correspondence between the two men, reprints of C.A. Wood and letters from various correspondents concerning C.A. Wood.

The fonds consists of Dr. Bensley's research notes and correspondence, particularly in relation to his publication McGill Medical Luminaries.

The fonds includes Dr. Archibald’s correspondence and reports pertaining to the Ministry of National Defence, 1940-1945; certificates and diplomas; and a photograph. The correspondents include family members, Dr. John McCrae and Sir William Osler. There is also a draft of a book on wound ballistics and gas gangrene; an Army Field Service book, 1916 and two notebooks on internal and external pathology, “matiere medicale et therapeutique,” and “medecine legale et toxicologie,” 1895.

Fonds consists of pamphlet entitled, “What to Eat to be Healthy” (Toronto: Canadian Medical Association and Canadian Life Insurance Officers Association, 1937), authored by Tisdall. Fonds also includes: typed letter signed from J. P. Crozer Griffith to Tisdall, Feb. 10, 1923, concerning a case on which Tisdall had consulted Griffith; autographed letter signed from Mrs. J. B. Gregory and Eliza J. Gregory, Aug. 2, 1920, agreeing to lease rental property to Tisdall; and autographed receipt signed from Mrs. J. B. Gregory acknowledging receipt of Tisdall’s rental payments.

Fonds contains correspondence mostly between George Dock and Sir William Osler but also with Lady Osler, W.W. Francis and Archibald Malloch, from 1891 to 1919. The fonds includes 106 letters, originals and carbon copies.

Fonds contains G.E. Tremble's notes on the anatomy of the ear from lectures by Professor Ruttin at the University of Edinburgh in 1924, a letter from Dr. Wilder Penfield and a photograph of a case of 1935. The fonds includes a notebook, a letter and a photograph.

The fonds primarily reflects Pappius’s activities as a researcher at the Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital (MNI/H): both her experimental research as such and various support activities, including academic publication, coordination of research projects with colleagues, and acquiring funding. It also contains much information about her leadership of the Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory. The fonds contains smaller amounts of documentation regarding her activities as a professor at McGill University, her administrative roles at the MNI/H, and her participation in professional organizations, which reflects the smaller place that those roles occupied in her professional life.

The period of time best documented in the fonds spans the early 1980s to Pappius’s retirement in 1995. Correspondence with colleagues, mostly though not exclusively work-related, contains relatively more material from Pappius’s early career; although, here too, most of the material dates from the 1980s and after.

The main document types in the fonds related to Pappius’s research activities are experiment worksheets and printed tabular research data. Many of the research-related files contain negatives of autoradiographies, with a smaller number of photographic prints. Correspondence can be found in many series besides series F (Correspondence), as much of Pappius’s work was collaborative in nature.

The fonds is divided into eight series: (A) Research, (B) Academic events, (C) Teaching, (D) Administrative activities, (E) Professional organizations, (F) Correspondence, (G) Personal collections, and (H) Visual documents.