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Ballingall, Sir George (1780-1855)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MS.6905

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Ballingall, Sir George (1780-1855)

Date(s): 1808-1852

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 70 items

Name of creator(s): Ballingall | Sir | George | 1780-1855 | Knight | Regius Professor of Military Surgery at Edinburgh University

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1780; Regius Professor of Military Surgery at Edinburgh University; died, 1855.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Sir George Ballingall, 1808-1852, including correspondence and papers collected by Ballingall, used to illustrate his lectures at Edinburgh University; correspondence with David Barry (1780-1835) FRS, on colon inflammation and other matters; letters, memoranda and case studies on venereal disease, amputations and other surgical procedures, army and navy punishments, hospital conditions and tropical medicine including with Sir Andrew Halliday (1781-1839) and Joshua Brookes (1761-1833) and printed material with diagrams of litters for troops in India.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in two sections by size.

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.

Finding aids:

Described in the Library's typescript supplements to its published manuscript catalogues.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Julian Browning, 1992.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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: Jul 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Military hospitals | Hospitals | Health services
Military medicine | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
Tropical diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Venereal diseases | Infectious diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Medical institutions
Military organizations

Personal names
Ballingall | Sir | George | 1780-1855 | Knight | Regius Professor of Military Surgery at Edinburgh University
Barry | Sir | David | 1780-1835 | Knight | physician and physiologist
Brookes | Joshua | 1761-1833 | anatomist
Halliday | Sir | Andrew | 1781-1839 | Knight | physician

Corporate names
Edinburgh University x University of Edinburgh

Places
India | South Asia