BLUNDELL, James (1790-1878): notes from his lectures on midwifery and the diseases of women and children
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 1538 S89 |
Held at | : Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ › |
Full title | : BLUNDELL, James (1790-1878): notes from his lectures on midwifery and the diseases of women and children |
Date(s) | : 1828-1829 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 1 vol |
Name of creator(s) | : Merrick | William | 1828-1829 | medical student |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
James Blundell was born, 1790; educated first by the Revd Thomas Thomason, and then at the United Borough Hospitals by his maternal uncle, the physiologist John Haighton, he graduated MD at Edinburgh, 1813; began lecturing in London on midwifery, 1814; soon after began to lecture on physiology; Lecturer in Midwifery and as Lecturer in Physiology at Guy's Hospital, 1818; Professor of Obstetrics and Lecturer on the Diseases of Women; left Guy's Hospital, 1834; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1838; retired, 1847; died, 1878.
Publications:
Researches Physiological and Pathological (1824)
Principles and Practice of Obstetricy (1834)
Observations on some of the More Important Diseases of Women (1837)
William Merrick gained a certificate to practice as an apothecary, 10 Nov 1831.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript notes by William Merrick, taken from lectures on 'midwifery and the diseases of women and children', given by James Blundell at Guy's Hospital, 1828-1829.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Single volume.
Conditions governing access:
Conditions governing reproduction:
Finding aids:
No additional finding aids.
Archival Information
Archival history:
From the collection of Roy Dobbin.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in September 2007.
Allied Materials
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Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Biographical details for Blundell, 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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