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Reeve, Henry (1780-1814), MD


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5429-5430

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Reeve, Henry (1780-1814), MD

Date(s): 1805-1806

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Reeve | Henry | 1780-1814 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1780; spent four years studying under the Norwich surgeon Philip Meadows Martineau, before matriculating at Edinburgh University in 1800; graduated MD at Edinburgh, 1803; attended Robert Willan's practice at the Public Dispensary in Carey Street, London, 1803; fellow of the Medical Society of London, 1803; went on a year-long European tour, 1805-1806; extra-licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, 1807; private practice in Norfolk; physician to the Norfolk Public Dispensary; physician to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and the Bethel Hospital for Lunatics, 1808; died, 1814.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Henry Reeve comprising a journal of continental travels, 1805-1806; letter to Francis Horner, 15 July 1805.

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Described in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Richard Hatchwell, 1986.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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
Hospitals | Health services
Phrenology | Alternative therapies
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Vaccination | Preventive medicine | Systems of medicine
Electricity
Medical institutions
Personnel
Travel

Personal names
Horner | Francis | 1778-1817 | politician
Reeve | Henry | 1780-1814 | physician

Corporate names

Places
Europe