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Fonds shows Dr. Philip Franklin's relations and activities with Sir William Osler regarding the Post-Graduate Scheme in England and the American Hospital in England during WWI. The fonds contains letters, telegrams and an agenda and printed material regarding a meeting about the American Hospital.

The fonds contains fourteen notebooks kept by the Poisson family during their studies in medicine. The notebooks contain lecture notes and class notes on various topics in medicine taught by prominent professors such as, Jean Étienne and L. Landry, L. Simard, F.A.H. Larue, and J. Sewell.

The fonds documents Purdy A. MacDonald's activities as a medical student at McGill University. The fonds contains student notebooks, loose notes and hand-outs.

Consists of material relating to the School of Nursing at the Queen Elizabeth hospital, including yearbooks (1960-1964), school notes, photographs of alumni and publications on the history of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and memorabilia. Some documents and photographs relate in particular to the 1963 class of the School of Nursing. One item relates to the Alexandra Hospital for Contagious Diseases and consists of a January 1970 nursing manual with hospital policies regarding hygiene, diet, evening and morning care, some nursing treatments, and patient admittance; also includes descriptions of various contagious illnesses. One file consists of a digital copy of an originally typewritten text entitled "History of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital" produced by the Alumnae Association. This item details the history of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital beginning with its origins as a homeopathic institution and the creation of a nursing school, along with many details as to nurses' schedules, regulations, and uniforms during the early days of the hospital. It also contains a list of nurses "who have done outstanding work in the nursing field" between 1908 and 1939, and a list of nursing school superintendants from 1894 to 1905.

Fonds documents R. Cameron Stewart's research circa 1937 on the history of the first vaccinations against smallpox in Canada. The fonds contains letters, notes, two baptismal certificates and a newspaper clipping.

Fonds contains five leather bound handwritten notebooks (one cracked) by R. J. Kimber while he was a student at Edinburgh University circa, 1807-08. Notebooks are titled: notes on midwifery, 1808; notes on the practice of medicine #1, 1807(Dr. Gregory); notes on the practice of medicine #2, 1807; book of miscellanies, clinical lectures, 1807?; notes on surgery, 180?.

Fonds contains two diaries for 1917 and 1918, and one address book of Dr. Robert Arthur Bowie during World War I. It includes 29 diaries written by his wife Pearl Blanche Bowie and by his daughter Margaret E. Bowie, from 1916 to 1951. In addition, there are a large number of photographs and negatives.

File contains 14 slides that detail the life and work of Ramon Cajal. Each slide includes a detailed description and features images such as his portrait, birthplace, medical school, monument, commemorative stamp, a street named in his honour, and his grave in Madrid.

Fonds contains the laboratory notebook used by R.D.H. Heard at the University of Toronto during his attempts to synthesize adrenaline and adrenaline-like substances in 1933.

The collection consists of written correspondence between Dr. Clarence B. Farrar and Dr. Franklin G. Ebaugh concerning reproductive rights for victims of rape in relation to the case of a Denver woman who was the victim of rape in 1955. The woman ended up giving birth to a child after she was denied an abortion by doctors and lawyers. The collection also includes a three-page editorial titled "Legal Abortions" that cites Chapter 40, Article 2, Section 23 of the Colorado Revised Statutes 1953.