IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-STUAA
Held at: Royal College of Physicians
Title: STUART, Alexander and WASEY, William
Date(s): 1723 -1724
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 vol
Name of creator(s): Stuart | Alexander | 1673-1742 | physician
Wasey | William | 1691-1757 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Alexander Stuart (1673-1742) MD of Leyden and Cambridge, was a Fellow of the College of Physicians and of the Royal Society. He was Physician to the Westminster Hospital during the same period as Dr Wasey.
William Wasey (1691-1757) MD Cambridge and President of the College of Physicians in 1750, 1751, 1752 and 1753, was Physician to the Westminster Hospital, 1719-1733.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Case notes compiled at Westminster Infirmary, containing the records of 169 patients at the Westminster Hospital. 94 patients were seen by Dr Wasey and 75 by Dr Stuart. There is an index of patients at the front, and an index of diseases at the back.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Latin
System of arrangement:
Single item
Conditions governing access:
Open for consultation, unless otherwise indicated.
Conditions governing reproduction:
All requests should be referred to the Archivist.
Finding aids:
Available at the Royal College of Physicians.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Provenance of the collection is unknown.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited 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: Aug 2008