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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Naval Medical History


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0121

Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England

Title: Naval Medical History

Date(s): 1932

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes and 2 letters

Name of creator(s): Unknown

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

It was previously thought that the volumes were written by Christopher Lloyd, Professor of History at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. This was due to letters inserted into the volumes from Christopher Lloyd to Jessie Dobson (Curator of the Hunterian Museum), in approximately 1960. However, Christopher Lloyd appears to be an academic rather than a medically qualified surgeon, and therefore was unlikely to be Sugeon Captain at Haslar Royal Naval Hospital in 1932.

It is possible that the volume is the work of Jack Leonard Sagar Coulter, Lloyd's co-editor on the Medicine and the Navy 1200-1900 series. Coulter was a Surgeon Captain and Surgeon Commander in the Royal Navy. However, according to the Medical Directories, Coulter was still at Bristol General Hospital in 1932. It is also possible that John Joyce Keevil, editor of earlier volumes in the Medicine and the Navy series, was the author of the volumes.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to naval medical history, 1932, comprising a volume titled Grievances of Naval Surgeons containing precis of letters published in The Lancet from 1827-1902, compiled by 'Surgeon Captain, Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, September 1932'; 2 letters from Christopher Lloyd of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, to Miss Jessie Dobson, concerning a historical enquiry (24 Oct 1960), and a visit to look at 'your Lancet volume'; and a volume containing issues which appeared in The Lancet in the 19th century, for instance, the exclusion of naval medical officers from the King's Levees, a new mode of punishment in the Navy, hospital ships, and the Gilbert Blane Medal.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

At the discretion of the Librarian.

Finding aids:

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The provenance of this material is not known.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.

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: Sep 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospitals | Health services
Naval history | History
Naval medicine | Military medicine | Medical sciences
Navy | Armed forces | State security
Periodicals | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Medical institutions
Military organizations

Personal names
Coulter | Jack Leonard Sagar | fl 1947-1963 | Surgeon Captain, Royal Navy
Dobson | Jessie | 1906-1984 | Curator of Hunterian Museum
Lloyd | Christopher | fl 1960-1965 | naval history author

Corporate names
RN | Royal Navy x Royal Navy
Royal Hospital Haslar | Gosport x Royal Naval Hospital Haslar x RNH Haslar
Royal Naval College | Greenwich
The Lancet

Places
Gosport | Hampshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe