This catalogue has made the archive available to researchers as a source for medical, social and local historians.
And in the relatively small world of medical historians, the squabble has often turned personal.
For doctors the collections progressively became the realm of the researcher and the medical historian.
Until recently the identity of this child had not been disclosed, although it was known to German medical historians.
Roy Porter, a medical historian, used hysteria to look at changing representations of the mind and body.
Despite his recognition in the history of medicine, he is quoted as saying, "I'm not really a medical historian.
And its appeal continues to this day, medical historians and researchers say.
Circumcision has been practiced in some human societies for at least 6,000 years, according to medical historians.
Written by a medical historian who is also a doctor, Unnatural History tells how and why this happened.
Ms. Joyce is the medical historian in this marriage.