The collection contains the Holmes Gold Medal, photographs, certificates, a poem, letters, newspaper clippings and memoirs.

Fonds documents Philip Burnett's activities as a medical student at McGill University. The fonds contains admission cards, schedules of courses, convocation program, certificates and a receipt.

Fonds contains the correspondence of James Bruce, Lord Eighth Earl of Elgin, with Dr. Michael McCulloch concerning his wife's confinements.

Fonds contains notes taken by Thomas McCrae between 1897 and 1904 at William Osler's clinics at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.

Fonds documents E.A. Wieland's studies at the Montreal Veterinary College from 1887 to 1889. The fonds contains receipts, examination questions, an admission card, a membership receipt and an invitation for the graduation ceremony.

Fonds contains William Wood Squire's manuscript of his thesis "Pathology and Treatment of some forms of Partial Paralysis" which won a prize as best thesis in medicine at McGill in 1864. The fonds includes a bound notebook and one loose illustration.

Fonds documents A.A. Mackay's medical activities at No. 2 C.C.S. (Casualty Clearing Station) in 1917. The fonds contains two army books of correspondence of Field Service in which case reports are recorded.

The fonds contains Roderick Stewart's research work and writing for his biography of Dr. Norman Bethune published as Bethune (1973) and The Mind of Norman Bethune (1977).

The collection contains a photo album of classmates and Annie Hall, and three diplomas McGill MD, CM 1891, Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1891, and the Quebec College of Physicians and Surgeons 1892.