IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0180
Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Title: Wallace, Thomas (1680-1763)
Date(s): 1710
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 volume
Name of creator(s): Wallace | Thomas | 1680-1763 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Thomas Wallace (1680-1763) was a physician practising in Whatfield, Suffolk. He is listed as a medic in P J and R V Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (1988).
Ward names are indicated in the volume, and research conducted by E Muirhead Little in 1928, for an article in the British Medical Journal, shows that the wards are in St Thomas's Hospital, London.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Thomas Wallace, 1719, comprising a volume written in Latin, containing case notes of patients; lists of symptoms, diseases, and treatments; rules and definitions of arithmetical progression; an article describing the volume, by E Muirhead Little, from the British Medical Journal, 8 Dec 1928; and a letter from the donor, W Reeve Wallace, 27 Mar 1934.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English and Latin.
System of arrangement:
As outlined in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
By written appointment only.
Conditions governing reproduction:
No photocopying permitted.
Finding aids:
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Donated by W Reeve Wallace, descendant of Thomas Wallace, in 1934.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Date(s) of descriptions: Sep 2008