Fonds contains the letters of certification of William A. De Wolf Smith's attendance at medical courses at McGill University in 1883. The fonds includes three letters of certification signed by teachers.

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).

Fonds shows Alphonse Allard’s activities as a medical student at McGill University from 1863 to 1865. It contains seven admission cards autographed by the teachers and also a certificate from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada

The fonds contains Margaret Gillett's source materials and drafts for her book Dear Grace, a Romance of History. The source materials include original letters from William C. Little to Grace Ritchie written between 1889-1893.

The fonds includes American Neurological Association material (1934-1941), army files (1939-1943), correspondence, lecture notes, glass slides, large glass negatives, colour screen filters, and reprints with a card index.

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.