HUNTER, William (1718-1783): notes from his lectures on anatomy
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 1538 S74 |
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Full title | : HUNTER, William (1718-1783): notes from his lectures on anatomy |
Date(s) | : [1746-1783] |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 3 volumes |
Name of creator(s) | : Unknown |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
William Hunter was born, 1718; attended the local Latin school; Glasgow University, 1731-1736; medical apprenticeship in Hamilton; went to London to learn midwifery from William Smellie, 1740; John Douglas's anatomy assistant and tutor to Douglas's son William George, 1741; surgical pupil of David Wilkie at St George's Hospital; studied anatomy and surgery, Paris, 1743- 1744; began building a surgical and midwifery practice, London; set up an anatomy course, 1746; member of the Company of Surgeons, 1747; temporary man-midwife at the Middlesex Hospital, 1748; man-midwife to the new British Lying-in Hospital, 1749-1759; member of the Society of London Physicians, 1754; licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, 1756; consultant physician, British Lying-in Hospital, 1759; Physician-Extraordinary to the Queen, 1762; steward, then treasurer, and finally President of the Society of Collegiate Physicians; fellow of the Royal Society, 1767; Professor of Anatomy, Royal Academy of Art, 1768; died, 1783.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript notes by an unknown student taken from lectures on anatomy given by William Hunter, undated.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
By volume
Conditions governing access:
Conditions governing reproduction:
Finding aids:
No additional finding aids.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Presented to the College Library by Lord Cohen of Birkenhead in January 1965.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in August 2007.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Other lectures by William Hunter (ref: S86).
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Compiled 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:
Jul 2008
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