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Batt Family, Surgeon Apothecaries


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5201-5202

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Batt Family, Surgeon Apothecaries

Date(s): 1744-1799

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Batt Family

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Batt Family were Surgeon Apothecaries, of Witney, Oxon.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Ledgers recording accounts for medical treatment and drugs dispensed, 1744-1799. Patients included, as well as private individuals, the Oxfordshire and Herefordshire militias, the poor of various parishes, and the local bridewell. On the front covers are annotations by Dr B E A Batt and his father Dr C D Batt, including the names of Edward Batt (1741-1797), surgeon and apothecary, and Augustine William Batt (1774-1847), MRCS Eng. Both practised in Witney.

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: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited on permanent loan by Dr B E A Batt, 1967.

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
Apothecaries | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Drug industry | Industry
Pharmaceutical industry | Chemical industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Pharmacists | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Prescription drugs | Drugs | Pharmacology
Personnel

Personal names

Corporate names
Batt Family, Surgeon Apothecaries

Places
Herefordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Oxfordshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe