Pathologist Spilsbury's Notes at the Wellcome Library

Wellcome Library Reading Room After Josef Jakobs was executed on 15 August, 1941, his post mortem was conducted by two men: London Eastern District Coroner W.R.H. Heddy and renowned pathologist Sir Bernard Spilsbury . Both men likely took meticulous notes but trying to track those notes down has proved to be a wild goose chase. In 2008 and 2009, a portion of Spilsbury's case notes, which he had transcribed onto index cards, were acquired by the Wellcome Library in London. The library is "one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history... and offer a growing collection of material relating to contemporary medicine and biomedical science in society". The index cards, about 7000 in total, contain just a fraction of Spilsbury's case notes. There are some temporal gaps but... it was worth a shot. Sir Bernard Spilsbury - Index Cards (From Wellcome Library Blog ) In 2012, I visited the Wellcome Library in the hopes that the case notes mi