{"id":1288,"date":"2017-12-07T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2017-12-04T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T10:12:30","slug":"postcard-to-professor-pybus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2017\/12\/07\/postcard-to-professor-pybus\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Card to Professor Pybus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ncllibspeccoll?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">#ChristmasCountdown<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><strong>Door No. 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1289\" style=\"width: 742px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/11\/FP-3-1-7-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1289\" class=\"wp-image-1289\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/files\/2017\/11\/FP-3-1-7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"732\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the Pybus (Professor Frederick) Archive, FP\/3\/1\/7<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Written during World War Two, this Christmas card was sent from Major Saviour of the 53 General Hospital, a Royal Army Medical Corps hospital which formed part of the Middle East Land Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The recipient was Frederick Charles Pybus, Professor of surgery at Newcastle Medical School. Major Saviour congratulate Pybus on his appointment and chair. In addition to Pybus\u2019 research into surgical methods and the causes of Cancer, he also amassed the internationally important Pybus Collection. The collection consists of around 2000 books on aspects of medical history, spanning nearly 700 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find out more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/library\/special-collections\/collections\/collection_details.php?id=86\">Pybus (Professor Frederick) Collection.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#ChristmasCountdown Door No. 7 Written during World War Two, this Christmas card was sent from Major Saviour of the 53 General Hospital, a Royal Army Medical Corps hospital which formed part of the Middle East Land Forces. The recipient was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/2017\/12\/07\/postcard-to-professor-pybus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5894,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[197,76,303,270,56],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-countdown","tag-christmascountdown","tag-christmas","tag-newcastle-medical-school","tag-professor-pybus","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1423,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/speccoll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}