MERRIMAN, Samuel (1771-1852)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0113 MS-MERRS |
Held at | : Royal College of Physicians Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/archive-and-historical-library-collections › |
Full title | : MERRIMAN, Samuel (1771-1852) |
Date(s) | : 1814 |
Level of description | : fonds |
Extent | : 1 item |
Name of creator(s) | : Merriman | Samuel | 1771-1852 | physician and accoucheur |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1771; education, the free grammar school, Marlborough and a school in Old Burlington Street, London; medical education mainly under his paternal uncle, also Samuel Merriman, a distinguished obstetrician; qualified, 1800; member of the Society of Apothecaries, 1800; initially practised as an apothecary but began to specialise in midwifery; from 1808 he was physician accoucheur, consulting physician accoucheur, and vice-president at the Westminster Dispensary; employed by the board of St George's, Hanover Square, to attend all difficult births in the parish, 1808; physician accoucheur to the Middlesex and Westminster lying-in hospitals, 1809; lectured on obstetrics at the Middlesex Hospital, 1810-; taught at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1820-1821; died, 1852.
Publications: Synopsis of the Various Kinds of Difficult Parturition (1814)
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Samuel Merriman's annotated copy of A Synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition, 1814.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Single item
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
All requests should be referred to the Archivist.
Finding aids:
Available at the Royal College of Physicians.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Presented to Dr Arthur Voelcker by his friend George L Merriman, Aberdeen, March 25, 1900.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by Dr A F Voelcker, 1926.
Allied Materials
Related material:
Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
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:
Aug 2008
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