Robert Hunter Steen- External URL
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Date: Approx. 1 Jan 1870
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Date: 12 Jul 1926
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Born
Approx. 1 Jan 1870
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Died
12 Jul 1926
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SentR.H. Steen to S.P. James, 11th Dec. 1923.
11 Dec 1923
Description:‘My dear James,
Many thanks for your letter received this morning. Arrangements will be made for Shute to-night. Do your Mosquitoes such up spirochaetes of Syphilis?. Shoudl we in the future want to give a patient Malaria will it be possible to obtain a Mosquito suitably charged from you?
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
R.H. Steen,
Medical Superintendent.’
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SentR.H. Steen to S.P. James, 1st Dec. 1923.
1 Dec 1923
Description:‘My dear James,
Dr. Navarra has handed me your letter of November 30th. I arranged everything for Shute the other night and I shall fix him up for to-night. I don’t mind lending a hand but I shall be glad when visits are no longer necessary.
With kind regards,
R.H. Steen.’
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SentR.H. Steen to to C. Hubert Bond, 11th June 1923.
11 Jun 1923
Description:‘Dear Dr. Bond,
For several months past I have been trying to get hold of a case of Malaria. I wrote to the different Hospitals for Tropical Diseases without success. Dr. Templeton 2nd A.M.O. here wrote a short paper upon the matter in the B.M.J. of May 26th. 1923. The Editor kindly inserted an annotation stating that we were looking out for cases. This brought to light two cases and two of our patients have been inoculated, and one a case of Tabes has apparently “taken” though before coming to a definite decision we are having his blood examined. Unfortunately at the present time our cases of G.P.I. are of a very poor type, but I expect a recent case to-morrow. I can say nothing at all about results as we are only just starting.
During my absence from home the cases were inoculated without communicating with the friends but I have given directions that in all cases in future, the consent of the friends must be obtained first and one consent arrived this morning.
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
R.H. Keen, Medical Superintendent.
P.S. It has occurred to me that it might be worth trying in other cases of other diseases [missing from photograph].’
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Recipient ofS.P. James to R.H. Steen, 17th Nov. 1923.
17 Nov 1923
Description:‘Dear Steen,
I think Dr. Bond has sent you a copy of a letter I wrote him on 14th November, but in case he did not do so I enclose a copy herewith. The Board of Control approve the feeding experiments which I suggested and I informed them of your kind offer to give me facilities for carrying them out at Dartford. Dr. Bond asked me to proceed with them in co-operation with you. Therefore it now remains to tell you that I should wish to carry out the work in the following ways:-
1. No inoculated case should receive quinine treatment during the week in which the feeding will be done. Therefore on receipt of this letter will you kindly arrange to stop quinine treatment of these patients?
2. I am sending my laboratory assistant to you on Tuesday morning early. He will take with him a supply of the mosquitos which are to be fed.
3. During the day of Tuesday he will examine the blood of all inoculated patients and will select the cases whose blood contains parasites suitable for the enquiry.
4. The feeding bottles containing the mosquitoes [sic] will be applied between 6 and 7 in the evening and will remain on the patients throughout the night. They will be fixed by means of long strips of adhesive plaster.
5. My assistant will remain in the ward throughout the night in order to see that no mishap to the bottles, etc. occurs.
6. In the morning he will remove the bottles and will bring them to London by the first train. They will then be incubated in our laboratory here and will be examined a week later.
7. The procedure for feeding may have to be repeated in the same way later in the week.
Can you very kindly arrange that Shute should be cared for as regards meals, etc., during his stay at the hospital for this work?
In case any other details may be necessary I propose if it will be convenient to you to run down to see you on Monday, arriving at about 2 o’clock and returning by the 4.13 train. We can then discuss the matter more fully.
Yours very sincerely,
(Sgd.) S.P.J.’
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Recipient ofS.P. James to R.H. Steen, 3rd Dec. 1923.
3 Dec 1923
Description:‘My dear Steen,
Many thanks for your letter of the 1st. I am afraid my letter of the 30th ought to have been addressed to you instead of to Dr. Navarra but I thought that probably you had given him general instructions to carry on in the mater of assisting us in the routine of this enquiry and that I ought not to trouble you with unnecessary detail. The arrangements which you have kindly made are so suitable that I shall be very sorry indeed if we have to discontinue the visits before getting a positive result. It is a difficult enquiry and I have not been able to find at Hanwell and other hospitals within a reasonable distance of town any cases which happen to be so suitable for feeding upon as those in your hospital. Therefore dear Friend, in memory of our student days, I beg that you will bear with us a little longer. I am sending Shute to the Isle of Grain tomorrow to try to collect some more anopheles mosquitoes (they are very scarce at this time of year) in the hope that you will allow us to feed them on Friday night on the two cases (Mr. Still and Mr. Thorpe) whose parasites by that time should be in a condition very suitable for the experiment. In the meantime I am greatly hoping that the ‘squitoes which were fed last night will react favourably and in any case I am greatly thankful to you for the good assistance you have so kindly given.
Yours very sincerely,
[S.P. James.]’
