IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0156
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Page, Herbert Markant (fl 1873-1917)
Date(s): 1890-1891
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 5 photographs
Name of creator(s): Page | Herbert Markant | fl 1873-1917 | surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Herbert Markant Page studied to be a doctor of medicine at Brussels in 1882. He had become a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1873 and a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1874. He had also studied Public Health at Cambridge in 1879. His career history included Resident Medical Assistant at the General Hospital, Birmingham; Medical Officer of Health at Redditch Unitary District; and Honorary Surgeon at Smallwood Hospital. He was a member of the British Medical Association; the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society; and the Royal Sanitary Institute. He was also a fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Herbert Markant Page, 1890-1891, comprising 5 photographs mounted on board showing figures from an article by Page on a mylacephalous acardiac foetus published in Transactions of the Obstetrical Society, Volume XXXIII, 1891. The figures are of the specimen and placenta, and are titled as follows: "Figure 1) Anterior Lateral (left) view. Omphalosite."; "Figure 2) Anterio Lateral (right) view. Omphalosite."; "Figure 3) Perinaeum - Omphalosite."; "Figure 4) Placenta - Omphalosite."; and "Figure 5) Dissection of Omphalosite." The photographs are accompanied by a summary sheet titled An Aprosopous Anencephalic Monster (Companion to a normal living twin) August 15th 1890. The summary sheet gives details of the case, descriptions of the photographs, and a copy of the index to figure five.
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:
No photocopying permitted.
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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
The specimen in the photographs was presented to the Museum at Queen's College, Birmingham. The photographs were located in a parcel with some drawings to illustrate work by Alban Henry Griffith Doran on diseases of the Fallopian Tubes. (See MS0155/4/5).
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by Alban Henry Griffith Doran (FRCS).
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Medical Directories 1874, 1910, 1917
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008