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Falkener, Lyon (1867-1947)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.6802-6809 & 7990-7995

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Falkener, Lyon (1867-1947)

Date(s): 1861-1948

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 48 items (plus 1 box uncatalogued)

Name of creator(s): Falkener | Lyon | 1867-1947 | physician and surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Lyon Falkener (1867-1947), MRCS, LRCP; nd locum tenens at Claybury Asylum and the Western Fever Hospital, Fulham; nd Assistant House Surgeon at the Metropolitan Hospital, London and nd General Practitioner at Icart, Guernsey.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Lecture notes, case notes and abstracts of printed works compiled by Lyon Falkener in various professional positions, 1861-1948: most importantly as locum tenens at Claybury Asylum and the Western Fever Hospital, Fulham, and as Assistant House Surgeon at the Metropolitan Hospital, London. A few personal items, largely testimonials and photographs supplement these, together with medical papers by Falkener. Falkener's later career as a general practitioner at Icart, Guernsey, is represented by a collection of his prescriptions.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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.

Finding aids:

Described in the Library's typescript finding aids by Richard Aspin, Christopher Hilton, Keith Moore and Richard Palmer.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Lt Colonel M B Portman as executor of the estate of Margorey Falkener, 1991 (acc. nos. 348509, 348799) and 2002 (acc.1019).

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

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
Anaesthesia | Medical sciences
Asylums | Medical institutions | Health services
General practice | Medical sciences
Health policy | Health
Hospitals, psychiatric | Hospitals, special | Hospitals | Health services
Infectious diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Prescription drugs | Drugs | Pharmacology
Communicable diseases x Infectious diseases
Primary documents

Personal names
Falkener | Lyon | 1867-1947 | physician and surgeon

Corporate names
Metropolitan Hospital | London

Places
Guernsey | Channel Islands | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe