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Fordyce, George (1736-1802)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5279-5280

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Fordyce, George (1736-1802)

Date(s): 1782

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Fordyce | George | 1736-1802 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, Aberdeen, 1736; educated, school at Fouran, University of Aberdeen; trained with his his uncle, Dr John Fordyce of Uppingham, [1851-1855]; medical student, University of Edinburgh, 1855; M D, 1758; studied anatomy under Albinus at Leyden, 1759; commenced a course of lectures on chemistry, 1759; added courses on materia medica and the practice of physic, 1764, and continued to teach for nearly thirty years; licentiate of the College of Physicians, 1765; Physician, St Thomas's Hospital, 1770-1802; Fellow, Royal Society, 1776; 'speciali gratia' fellow of the College of Physicians, 1787; important part in compiling the new 'Pharmacopeia Londinensis,' issued 1788. assisted in forming a Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge, 1793; died, 1802.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes on lectures on materia medica by George Fordyce, taken down by John Bannister, and dated London, 28 June 1782.

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:

2 volumes, each 235 × 200 mm., viii + 181 ff. and 226 ff. respectively. Contemporary marbled boards with calf spines. Bookplates of William Sargant, FRCP.

Finding aids:

Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Acquired, with MS. 5281, at Sotheby's 1-2 March 1983, lot 32.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

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
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Personnel
Pharmacology

Personal names
Fordyce | George | 1736-1802 | physician

Corporate names

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