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Ash, John (1723-1798)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 MS/169

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Ash, John (1723-1798)

Date(s): 1788

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Ash | John | 1723-1798 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1722; probably educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, before entering Trinity College, Oxford, BA 1743; MA 1746; MB 1750; MD 1754; practiced in Birmingham, 1752-1769; founder member of Birmingham General Hospital, 1779; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1787; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1787; leading member of the Royal College of Physicians, being censor in 1789 and 1793, Harveian orator in 1790, Goulstonian lecturer in 1791, and Croonian lecturer in 1793; died, 1798.

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Scope and content/abstract:

Paper read at the Royal Society from 14 Feb to 6 Mar 1788 by John Ash entitled 'Observation and Experiments to investigate by Chemical Analysis the Medicinal Properties of the Mineral Waters of Spa and Aix la Chapelle in Germany and of the Waters and Boue at St Amand in French Flanders'.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Open

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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Paper, size 9.5 x 7.5 inches, bound.

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Detailed catalogue

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Sources: Oxford DNB. Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Mineral water | Beverages | Food | Agricultural products
Spas | Health facilities | Health care facilities, manpower, and services
Chemistry

Personal names
Ash | John | 1723-1798 | physician

Corporate names
Royal Society

Places
Germany | Western Europe | Europe