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.
Fonds consists of a manuscript translation by Dr. Gruner of volume II of the Canon of Medicine of Avicenna dated 1957 and vocabulary indexes of Arabic names of Materia Medica, Latin-English names, Latin-Arabic equivalents, native names and others. These vocabularies were done in 1929-1930. It also contains three volumes of Dr. Gruner's research on cancer. This work was done through the Archibald Cancer Research Fund, from 1932 to 1946. In volume III, a printed address "A Vagabond Cruise Round Cancer" (1950) is inserted in the cover.
Fonds contains two admission cards of Harry C. Cunningham for the year 1883, one for the course of Microscope in Medicine signed by Sir William Osler and one for a six month ticket to the Montreal General Hospital.
Fonds shows Samuel Hanford McKee's interest in war lesions of the eyes. It contains the original plates for his article "War Lesions of the Fundus" published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology, vol. 6, September 1923, and a series of 33 hand illustrated case histories of injuries of the eye during World War I. The illustrations are from E. Bind.
Fonds shows John McNaughton's activities as a medical student. It contains 3 lecture cards signed by or printed for the teachers. Among them are John Stephenson and W. Robertson.
Fonds shows Henry Beaumont Small's activities as a medical student through his admission cards for his complete medical formation. It contains 43 admission cards signed by or printed for the teachers, among them William Osler.
Fonds contains Thomas Jenyns' Commonplace book containing notes of a course of 37 lectures, from 23 May to 2 July 1692 on Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry given by an unnamed Italian anatomist. There are also sermons in Jenyns' writing and that of an unnamed person, dated 1735. The fonds includes one book and two note sheets from W.W. Francis.