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Porter, Surgeon-Major J. H. (1831-1880)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7841-7843

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Porter, Surgeon-Major J. H. (1831-1880)

Date(s): 1850-1881

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 volumes

Name of creator(s): Porter | Joshua Henry | 1831-1880 | Surgeon-Major

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Joshua Henry Porter served in the 97th regiment, and was commended for his services at the siege of Sebastapol and the fall of Lucknow. He worked at the Army Medical School, Netley where he was assistant professor of military surgery. Porter was also deputy commander of the British Ambulance Service in France during the Franco-Prussian war and medical officer in charge of the Kabul force in the Afghan war. He died at Kabul in 1880.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Joshua Henry Porter including manuscript draft and published version of The Surgeon's Pocket-book, 2nd edition, 1880 and military scrapbook, 1850-1881.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

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:

Finding aids:

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Barrie Evans (formerly Messengers Ltd), November 2000.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Ambulances | Emergency vehicles | Vehicles | Transport
First aid | Emergency treatment | Medical treatment | Therapy | Medical sciences
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) | Wars (events)
Medical education | Higher science education
Military medicine | Medical sciences
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Scrapbooks | Albums (documents) | Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Surgeons | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
War | International conflicts
Wounds and injuries | Disorders of environmental origin | Disorders | Medical conditions | Pathology
Surgeons x Physicians
Personnel

Personal names
Porter | Joshua Henry | 1831-1880 | Surgeon-Major

Corporate names

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