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
System of arrangement:
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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