IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 GC/15
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Grant, Ronald Thompson (1892-1989)
Date(s): 1919-1921
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 box
Name of creator(s): Grant | Ronald Thompson | 1892-1989 | cardiologist
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
These case cards of patients first seen for vascular disease of the heart (VDH) between 1919-1921, were brought together by R D Grant for his study of this condition. The results of his research were published in Heart, Vol VI, June 1933, as 'After histories for 10 years of 1000 men suffering from heart disease: study in prognosis'. It is said that it was for this work that Grant became an FRS: for further biographical details see Who's Who.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Case records on vascular diseases of the heart, [University College Hospital, London], 1919-1921. These case cards of patients first seen for vascular disease of the heart (VDH) between 1919-1921, were brought together by R D Grant for his study of this condition. The results of his research were published in Heart, Vol VI, June 1933, as 'After histories for 10 years of 1000 men suffering from heart disease: study in prognosis'.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As set out above in Scope and Content.
Conditions governing access:
Open. The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
Finding aids:
Wellcome Library catalogue online.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
These records were given to Dr A Hollman of University College Hospital by Sir Edward Pochin of the Cardiac Department of the hospital. They were presented to the Wellcome Institute Library by Dr Hollman in 1968, and transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1981.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.
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: January 2009