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Perceval, Robert (1756-1839)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.3826, 3827

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Perceval, Robert (1756-1839)

Date(s): 1777-1778

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Perceval | Robert | 1756-1839

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Robert Perceval obtained his MD at Edinburgh in 1780, and was appointed first Professor of Chemistry, Dublin University, a post he held from 1785 to 1805.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Robert Perceval's clinical notes of cases in Edinburgh Infirmary, 1777-1778. Compiler's holograph manuscript. Produced in Edinburgh.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As set out above in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

2 vols. 8vo. 19 × 12 cm., 181/2 × 12 cm. Original quarter-calf bindings, not uniform. Written mostly in shorthand.

Finding aids:

Described in: S A J Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased at Sotheby's 23/7/1934, Lot 216 (part).

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with 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: November 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Clinical medicine | Medical sciences
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Primary documents

Personal names
Perceval | Robert | 1756-1839 | physician

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Places