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Royal College of Physicians

WHARTON, Thomas (1614-1673)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-WHART

Held at: Royal College of Physicians

Title: WHARTON, Thomas (1614-1673)

Date(s): 1663-1666

Level of description: Colelction (fonds)

Extent: 5 vols

Name of creator(s): Wharton | Thomas | 1614-1673 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1614; educated: Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1637; Trinity College, Oxford; studied chemistry and medicine with John Scrope at Bolton Castle, 1642-1645; moved to London to study medicine, 1645; returned to Oxford, 1646; DM, 1647; Fellow of the College of Physicians, London, 1650; incorporated at Cambridge on his doctor's degree, 1652; served as a censor of the College of Physicians, London, 1658, 1661, 1666, 1667, 1668, and 1673; practised medicine in London, 1648-; physician to St Thomas's Hospital, London, 1657-1673; died, 1673.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Thomas Wharton comprising his letterbook 1672-1673 and George Wharton's 'Calendarium Carolinum' annotated by Thomas Wharton with records of his medical cases, prescriptions, notes on treatment, copies of letters, receipts and expenditures and notes on current events 1663-[1666].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Unknown

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:

Letter book was presented by Mrs Charles Darwin, July 1925.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited 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: Aug 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Prescriptions | Documents | Information sources
Medical sciences
Primary documents

Personal names
Wharton | Thomas | 1614-1673 | physician

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