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Shillitoe, Buxton (1826-1916)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4521-4564

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Shillitoe, Buxton (1826-1916)

Date(s): 1850-1898

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 44 volumes

Name of creator(s): Shillitoe | Buxton | 1826-1916 | surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Buxton Stilltoe graduated from University College Hospital Medical School, and became FRCS in 1860. He practised at Finsbury Circus, and was surgeon to the London Lock Hospital from 1887 to 1909 [cf BMJ 1917 (1), p. 33].

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Buxton Stilltoe's note-books containing clinical notes, notes on anatomy, pathology, etc. Author's holograph MSS. Produced in London, 1850-1898.

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: 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

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Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1924.

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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
Anatomy | Biology
Clinical medicine | Medical sciences
Drug industry | Industry
Fees, medical | Economics, medical | Economics
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Syphilis | Diseases | Pathology
Venereal diseases | Infectious diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Bacterial infections
Bacterial infections and mycoses
Primary documents
Spirochaetales infections
Treponemal infections

Personal names
Shillitoe | Buxton | 1826-1916 | surgeon

Corporate names

Places