IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/94
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Sekulich, Milosh (1900-1986)
Date(s): 1932-1962
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 7 boxes
Name of creator(s): Sekulich | Milosh | 1900-1986 | doctor
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born 1900; qualified with an MD from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1926. During the 1920s and 1930s he worked at the University Hospital for Pulmonary Diseases and Belgrade State Hospital, as well as undertaking research in Paris clinics; in charge of a unit for Internal Diseases and Tuberculosis at the Municipal Hospital Belgrade, 1935-1941. He fled to London in 1941, working in various capacities for the Yugoslav government and liberation movements and acting as Yugoslav representative to UNRAA. He appears to have re-qualified as MB,ChB in Glasgow in 1944 and he undertook research work under Professor Dible at the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, 1946-1948. Subsequently he held appointments at the Hounslow, Harrow, Hampstead, Edgware, Ealing, Luton and Uxbridge Chest Clinics, where he tested his classification scheme of TB. In 1948 and again from 1953 he undertook general practice work and had a small private practice. The collection reflects his dedication to the classification scheme for pulmonary tuberculosis which he devised. This was a subject which had interested him from 1923 and which he appears to have first written about in 1940. He published a large number of papers in Serbian, French, German and English, and his important books were published byHeinemann: The Classification of Pulmonary Tuberculosis (1953) and Tuberculosis, Classification, Pathogenesis and Management (1955). In his scheme he emphasised that every case should be classified for either primary or secondary TB of any organ, and must represent a pathogenic entity: he further divided into two pathogenic types and four clinico-pathologico-pathogenic forms. Sekulich died in 1986.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Milosh Sekulich, 1932-1962; notably correspondence, notes, case records, and draft writings pertaining to his study of tuberculosis and its classification, mainly 1953-1962.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
The papers have been slightly re-arranged, although on the whole the files are as Sekulich left them.
Conditions governing access:
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Dr Sekulich's papers and books were presented to the Wellcome Institute by his executor, Mrs U Bozovic, in February 1987.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
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Related material:
A number of Dr Sekulich's medical apparatus and diagnostic instruments are to be found in the Wellcome Collection at the Science Museum (ref 1987-573-578).
Sekulich's library and other papers were given to the School of Slavonic and European Studies, University of London.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled from Wellcome Library online catalogue by Barbara Ball.
Date(s) of descriptions: September 2008.