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Innes Smith Personal Papers

Ref: MS 210

Title: Innes Smith Personal Papers

Scope: Personal papers of Robert W. Innes Smith, medical practitioner in Sheffield and medical historian, for the period circa 1894 to 1936.

Dates: c.1894-1936
Level: Fonds
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator: Robert William Innes Smith

Administrative / biographical history:

The Papers are personal documents (correspondence, news-cuttings etc.) which belonged to Robert W. Innes Smith but which were not included in his Working Papers deposited at the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Robert William Innes Smith (1872-1933) was a graduate in medicine of Edinburgh University and a general practitioner for thirty three years in the Brightside district of Sheffield. His strong interest in medical history and art brought him some acclaim, and his study of English-speaking students of medicine at the University of Leyden, published in 1932, is regarded as a model of its kind. Locally in Sheffield Innes Smith was highly respected as both medical man and scholar: his pioneer work in the organisation of ambulance services and first-aid stations in the larger steel works made him many friends.

The file includes a copy of the listing, with his notes on the papers, made by Dr Harold Swan, Honorary Lecturer in Medical History, University of Sheffield, and formerly Consultant in Haematology, United Sheffield Hospitals, who originally received the Papers in the late 1980s for use in his own researches.