IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/PP17
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: CRIBB, William D (fl 1778-1779)
Date(s): [1779]
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Cribb | William | fl [1778-1779] | medical student
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
William Cribb was a dresser to George Martin, Surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital, 1778.
Joseph Else was Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, London from 1768 to 1780. He was appointed Lecturer in Anatomy and Surgery in 1768 on the unification of the medical schools of St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals.
Publications: An essay on the cure of the hydrocele of the tunica vaginalis testis (London, 1770); The works of ... J. E., ... containing a treatise on the hydrocele, and other papers on different subjects in surgery. To which is added, an appendix, containing some cases of hydrocele ... by G Vaux (London, 1782); [An account of a successful method of treating sore legs.] Méthode avantageuse de traiter les ulcères des jambes in [Surgical tracts, containing a treatise upon ulcers of the legs.] Traité sur les ulcères des jambes, etc by Michael Underwood MD pp 217-228 (1744 [1784]).
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of William Cribb comprising his notes on lectures by Joseph Else on diseases of the bones, [1779].
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
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 Services
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogue
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Acquired by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002
ALLIED MATERIALS
Existence and location of originals:
Existence and location of copies:
Related material:
Lecture notes of Else, 1785 and undated, are held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine (reference: MSS 2292, 6918).
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Former reference: M55
Archivist's note: Sources: Historical Manuscripts Commission On-line National Register of Archives; 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.
Date(s) of descriptions: April 2002. Revised Jan 2004