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Stumbles, Henry Martyn (d 1916)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7881-7882

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Stumbles, Henry Martyn (d 1916)

Date(s): c 1898-1899

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Stumbles | Henry Martyn | d 1916 | physician

CONTEXT

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CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Surgical lecture and other notes taken by [H.M. Stumbles as a student at Edinburgh University] With numerous coloured sketches. The author is not named, but identification was provided by the donor. The first part of MS. 7881 (ff. 1-80) contains a fair-copy transcript of 21 surgical lectures, no doubt delivered at the Edinburgh Medical School where Stumbles was a student (MB, ChB 1902); this is followed by fair-copy notes on various diseases and conditions pertaining to surgery, including diseases of bones (ff. 81-83), fractures and dislocations (84-242, and in MS. 7882, ff. 1-12), diseases of the blood vessels (13-40), the lymphatic system (41-43), tumours (44-68), the osseous and articular system (69-139), diseases of muscle (141-168), venereal diseases (168-205), injuries and diseases of the nerves (206-239), and middle ear diseases (239-243). The source of the notes is not generally given, though `Harold Stiles MB' [Harold Jalland Stiles, assistant in Surgery, University of Edinburgh, 1889-1900] evidently delivered lecture IX (on anaesthetics), MS. 7881, f. 29, and his name is found again on f. 224 of MS. 7882. The implication is that this was a departure from the norm, and the bulk of the lectures, if not the other notes, presumably derive from John Chiene (1843-1923), Professor of Surgery at Edinburgh. Two cuttings from the British Medical Journal, 26 Nov. 1898 and 9 Jan. 1899, are bound into MS. 7882, ff. 85-86 and 138.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

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.

Physical characteristics:

2 volumes, each 235 x 180 mm., 242 and 243 ff. (original foliation 1-481 and unnumbered). Half calf-bound, with brown buckram-covered boards and marbled end papers. Spines lettered: 'Surgery Vol I and Surgery Vol II', in gilt, with gilt decoration.

Finding aids:

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

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ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Presented by Mr Robert Bartlett, 2001.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Blood vessels | Anatomy | Biology
Bones | Musculoskeletal system | Anatomy | Biology
Ear | Anatomy | Biology
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Lymphatic system | Anatomy | Biology
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Muscles | Anatomy | Biology
Nerves | Nervous systems | Anatomy | Biology
Surgery | Medical sciences
Tumours | Diseases | Pathology
Venereal diseases | Infectious diseases | Diseases | Pathology

Personal names
Chiene | John | 1843-1923 | Professor of Surgery
Stumbles | Henry Martyn | d 1916 | physician

Corporate names
Edinburgh University x University of Edinburgh

Places