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MACKENZIE, Colin (1697-1775): notes from his lectures on midwifery


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 S84

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: MACKENZIE, Colin (1697-1775): notes from his lectures on midwifery

Date(s): 1774-1954

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 vol., 1 file

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Colin Mackenzie was born, 1697 or 1698; attended, as Calenus Makenje, Scotus, the medical courses of Herman Boerhaave at the University of Leiden, 1722; studied under Alexander Monro primus in Edinburgh, 1740 and 1742; pupil of William Smellie; taught courses in obstetrics, 1754-1775; maintained a private lying-in establishment in Crucifix Lane, Southwark; degree of MD by the University of St Andrews, 1759; died, 1775.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript notes by an unknown pupil taken from lectures on midwifery delivered by Colin Mackenzie, 1774, and letter from Miles Philips relating to the notes, enclosing a list of references on Colin Mackenzie, 1954.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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No additional finding aids.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Purchased for the College Library in 1974.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in September 2007.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.

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
History of medicine | History
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences

Personal names
Mackenzie | Colin | 1697/8-1775 | physician and man-midwife
Phillips | Miles Harris | 1875-1965 | surgeon and historian of obstetrics

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