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Collection highlights
Highlights of the RSM's archive collection include:
- The Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus by William Harvey published in 1628
- Letters by historical figures such as Charles Darwin, Edward Jenner, Sigmund Freud and Jean-Martin Charcot
- Minute books and documentation illustrating the rise of medical societies in the 19th century; they went on to form the RSM
- The Diamond Collection, a unique collection of 22 photographs of psychiatric patients by early British psychiatrist and photographer Hugh Welch Diamond
- Illustrations, prints, photographs, engravings and drawings of medical figures