THOMSON, Professor St Clair (1859-1943)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0100 KCLCA KH/PP17 |
Held at | : King's College London College Archives Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ › |
Full title | : THOMSON, Professor St Clair (1859-1943) |
Date(s) | : 1879-1880 |
Level of description | : Collection (fonds) |
Extent | : 1 volume |
Name of creator(s) | : Thomson | St Clair | 1859-1943 | Professor of Laryngology |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1859; entered King's College London Medical Department, 1878, obtained honours in Medicine, 1883; appointed House Surgeon to Joseph Lister, Professor of Clinical Surgery, King's College London, 1883; practised in Italy and Switzerland and qualified as a Doctor of Medicine at Lausanne, 1891; Physician to the Throat Hospital, Golden Square, London, and Surgeon to the Royal Ear Hospital, 1893-1901; Assistant Physician for Diseases of the Throat and Nose, King's College Hospital, 1901; Physician in Charge of the Department, 1905; Professor of Laryngology, King's College London, 1908- 1924; appointed Emeritus Professor of Laryngology, King's College London, and Consulting Laryngological Physician to King's College Hospital, 1924; President of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1924-1926; died, 1943.
Publications: The cerebro-spinal fluid (London, 1899); Submucous excision of deviations and spurs of the nasal septum (London, 1906); Operations upon the nose and its accessory cavities (Oxford, 1909); Diseases of the nose and throat (London, 1911); Tuberculosis of the larynx (London, 1924); Cancer of the larynx (London, 1930).
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Volume of case notes and lecture notes taken by St Clair Thomson from lectures on surgery delivered by Jospeh Lister, Professor of Clinical Surgery, King's College London, 1879-1880, including the treatment of abscesses, carcinoma, gall stones and the importance of dressing wounds and the use of antiseptics.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.
Finding aids:
Summary guide entry on-line and due to be published in hard copy.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Papers presented to King's College Hospital by the executors of the estate of St Clair Thomson, 1945.
Allied Materials
Related material:
King's College London College Archives holds further entries relating to Thomson's career in King's College London Council Minutes (Ref: KA/C/M); King's College Hospital Medical Society Minutes (Ref: KH/MS/M).
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Publication note:
Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Herbert Willoughby Lyle, King's and some King's men (London, 1935); King's College London Calendars; Who's who. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell.
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:
11 May 2000.
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