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SOUTH, John Flint (1797-1882)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP60

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: SOUTH, John Flint (1797-1882)

Date(s): 1841-1862

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 5 volumes

Name of creator(s): South | John Flint | 1797-1882 | surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, Southwark, 1797; educated with Samuel Hemming, Hampton, Middlesex, 1805-1813; apprenticed to Henry Cline the younger, surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, 1814; attended Sir Astley Cooper's lectures on anatomy; acquainted with Joseph Henry Green, a fellow-apprentice, 1813; member, College of Surgeons of England, 1819; prosector to the lecturers on anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital; conservator of the museum and assistant demonstrator of anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital, 1820-1823; joint demonstrator of anatomy with Bransby Cooper, 1823, later Lecturer on Anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital; resigned, 1841; Member, Council of the College of Surgeons, 1841; Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, 1841-1863; Surgeon to the Female Orphan Asylum, 1843; Fellow, 1843, Examiner, 1849, President, 1851, 1860, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1843; Professor of Human Anatomy and Surgery in the College, 1845; Hunterian Orator, 1844; worked on the history of English surgery; died, 1882.
Publications include: The Dissector's Manual. A new edition, with additions and alterations (London, 1825); A Short Description of the Bones, together with their several connexions with each other, and with the muscles Second edition (W Jackson, London, 1828); St Thomas's Hospital Reports vol 1 editor (London, 1836); Household Surgery; or, hints on emergencies (London, 1847); Facts relating to Hospital Nurses ... Also observations on training establishments for hospitals and private nurses (London, 1857); Memorials of J F South ... Collected by ... C L Feltoe (J Murray, London, 1884); Memorials of the Craft of Surgery in England. From materials compiled by J. F. South Edited by D'Arcy Power and an introduction by Sir James Paget (Cassell & Co, London, 1886); A Compendium of Human and Comparative Pathological Anatomy by Adolph Wilhelm Otto, translated from the German, with notes by J F South (London, 1831); A System of Surgery Maximilian Joseph Chelius translated with additional notes and observations, by John F South 2 volumes (Henry Renshaw, London, 1847); Memorials of John Flint South Introduced by Robert Gittings (Centaur Press, Fontwell, 1970); articles on the 'Zoology of the Invertebrata' in the Encyclopędia Metropolitana.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of John Flint South, comprising surgical case notes of patients admitted to St Thomas's Hospital, 1859-1862, with index classified by disease, 1841-1861; also notice of meeting of the British Medical Association - South Eastern Branch, 17 Sep 1863.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records are arranged as outlined in the Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Acquired by St Thomas' Hospital Medical School.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Testimonials for William Wegg, 1845-1849, (TH/PP WEGG), held by King's College London. Lecture notes, 1819 and letters, 1801-1866, held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England; memoranda on the history of surgery, c1849-1857 (reference: MS 7793), held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Previous reference: M132, M133.

Archivist's note: Sources: Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984). Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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: April 2002; revised January 2003, January 2004


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Patients | Health services
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Surgeons | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
Surgeons x Physicians
Personnel
Primary documents
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names
South | John Flint | 1797-1882 | surgeon

Corporate names
St Thomas' Hospital | London

Places
Southwark | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe