19 - The Australian Association of Scientific Workers Drugs Sub-Committee

Series 19 - The Australian Association of Scientific Workers Drugs Sub-Committee

Date Range

1939 - 1946

Provenance

Description

Correspondence, reports, preparation details, notes, typescripts, publications, memoranda, diagrams.

Note: The A.A.S.W. Drugs Sub-Committee, which met at semi-monthly intervals, functioned mostly as a technical advisory committee of the Medical Equipment Control Committee of the Department of the Army (See 19/5)

Inventory Listing

19-1	Medical Equipment Control Committee and the A.A.S.W. Drugs Sub-Committee
	Correspondence, reports; including W.H. Lockwood, F.C. Kent, Sir Alan Newton, Dr. Adrien Albert, Professor E. Ashby Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range December 1939 - July 1941 Quantity 0.4 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-1 Box Number 85 Series 19
19-2	Drugs Sub-Committee, Essential Drug Survey
	Report by Adrien Albert on: i) The aeridine antiseptics, ii) The anti-malerials, iii) The morphine substitute: Dolantin Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range 9 May 1940 Quantity 0.1 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-2 Box Number 85 Series 19
19-3	Drugs Sub-Committee, May and Baker 693 (Dagenan)
	Confidential Report: Laboratory Preparation of M & B 693 (Dagenan) 8 July 1940; correspondence Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range July 1940 - October 1940 Quantity 0.5 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-3 Box Number 85 Series 19
19-4	Drugs Sub-Committee re synthesis of Carbarsone, Acetylarson, Sulphapyridine, Sulphathiazoles, Sulphaguanidine and Merthiolate
	Preparation details (typescript and manuscript), correspondence, notes, reports Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range 1940 - 1942 Quantity 0.8 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-4 Box Number 85 Series 19
19-5	Drugs Sub-Committee relating to Merthiosal, Phenobarbitone, Ascorbic Acid, Malic Acid
	Correspondence, reports: including A.A.S.W. Second Report of Drugs Sub-committee, April 18th 1940 - August 14th 1941; Bayer Pharma Pty. Ltd.; Colonial Sugar Refining Company Ltd.; Conference of Scientific Liaison Officers, October 10th 1942; Report by A. Albert on his visit to Melbourne, 31st August 1942; report on Proposed Technical Production of Drugs by Bayer-Pharma (Aust.); R.G. Smith, Nicholas Pty. Ltd. Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range 1940 - 1942 Quantity 0.6 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-5 Box Number 85 Series 19
19-6	Drugs Sub-Committee relating to Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Sulphanilyl Guanidine
	Correspondence, reports: including J.H.L. Cumpston; Murial Crabtree; Sir Alan Newton; Bayer-Pharma Pty. Ltd.; A.A.S.W. Commonwealth Research Grants' Committee Applications; Experiments on the Improvement of Treatment of Mustard Gas Lesions of the Skin Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range March 1941 - December 1941 Quantity 0.4 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-6 Box Number 85 Series 19
19-7	Terminal Reports by R.M. Gascoigne on leaving the Department of Medicine 1st May 1941
	Reports tendered: (a) of luminal, (b) pathological stains Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range 13 May 1941 Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-7 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-8	Drugs Sub-Committee Reports
	Correspondence, reports: including Summary of Present Position concerning Synthetic Ascorbic Acid 24 September 1941; Emergency Pharmacopoeia; Novacaine, Sulpha Drugs, January 1942; Ascorbic Acid, December 1941 - January 1941 Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range September 1941 - January 1942 Quantity 0.3 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-8 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-9	Report on Visit to Melbourne by A.A. Abbie, 11-12 August 1941
	Correspondence, report Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range August 1941 - December 1941 Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-9 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-10	Report on Visit to Melbourne by V.M. Trikojus for Drugs Sub-Committee
	Interviews with Sir Alan Newton, Dr. D.E. White, Mr Morris Nicholas, Prof. R.D. Wright Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range 29 January 1942 - 30 January 1942 Quantity 0.1 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-10 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-11	Drugs Sub-Committee relating to Sulphaguanidine and dysentry
	Correspondence: including Prof. E. Ashby; Sydney Hospital; R. Lemberg; Prof. Davies; Sir Alan Newton, Dr. F.H. Shaw; Australian Fertilizers Limited; Professor Fawsitt; Dr. D.E. White Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range January 1942 - May 1942 Quantity 0.4 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-11 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-12	Drugs Sub-Committee and related material
	Correspondence: including N.B. Lewis, Kodak (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.; I.W. Wark; notes, publications: including 'Relative Acidity and Basicity of Sulphanilomide and p. Aminobenzoic Acid' by Adrien Albert and Reginald Goldacre, Nature Vol. 149 p. 245, February 28, 1942 Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range January 1942 - September 1942 Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-12 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-13	Drugs Sub-Committee relating to Atebrin
	Correspondence, notes, reports: including Ways of Making "Atebrin" (Mepaerine B.P.), by Adrien Albert; Professor E. Ashby; Sir Alan Newton; Professor J.C. Earl; Dr. D.E. White Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range March 1942 - August 1942 Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-13 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-14	Drugs Sub-Committee relating to Zephinan, Dengue fever Mosquito, Corbasone, Sulphaguanidine, Merthiosal, Phenobarbitone
	Correspondence, reports, notes, publications: including Drug Houses of Australia; C.S. Teece, Commissioner of Patents; Allied Land Forces; Dr. D.E. White; F.H. Shaw; Lt. Col. E. Meyers, Professor E. Ashby; Bayer Pharma Pty. Ltd; R.S. Wallace; R.N. Robertson, Ajax Chemical Co. Pty. Ltd.; Professor J.C. Earl Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range March 1942 - August 1942 Quantity 0.6 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-14 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-15	Drugs Sub-Committee relating to Ascorbic Acid
	Correspondence, reports, memoranda: including W. Hermon Slade & Co. Pty. Ltd.; O.T. Lempriere and Co. Pty. Ltd.; Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd.; I.W. Wark; Glaxo Laboratories (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.; Maize Products Pty. Ltd.; Sir Alan Newton; Walter Hoadley Cereal Products; Professor E. Ashby Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range April 1942 - August 1942 Quantity 0.4 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-15 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-16	Drugs Sub-Committee relating to Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid) and Malic Acid
	Correspondence, notes, diagrams: including I.W. Wark; R.N. Robertson; Sir Alan Newton; F.H. Shaw; C.S. Teece; Dr. E. Weston Hurst, Elliots and Australian Drugs; Roche Products Ltd.; D. Martin Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range February 1942 - October 1942, February 1942, August-October 1942 Quantity 0.3 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-16 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-17	Drugs Sub-Committee relating to Carbasone, Mersalyl and Merthiosal
	Correspondences, notes; including 'Carbasone' Supplementary report to the Drugs Sub-Committee by R.I. Nicholson; Robert F. Condon, Sir Alan Newton; State Salvage Office, N.S.W.; R.G. Smith Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range October 1942 - December 1942 Quantity 0.2 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-17 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-18	Medical Equipment Control Committee
	Drug Research Newsletter, notes, correspondence: including Sir Alan Newton and M.R. Lemberg Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range October 1942 - April 1943, October-December 1942, March-April 1943 Quantity 0.1 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-18 Box Number 86 Series 19
19-19	Final letters of thanks regarding the winding up of the Medical Equipment Control Committee and the Drugs Sub-Committee
	Creator Victor Martin Trikojus Date range 1946 Quantity 0.1 cm, Inventory Identifier 19-19 Box Number 86 Series 19

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