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Hansler, Sir John Jacob (1788-1867)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2769-2776

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Hansler, Sir John Jacob (1788-1867)

Date(s): 1837

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 8 volumes

Name of creator(s): Hansler | Sir | John Jacob | 1788-1867 | Knight | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir John Jacob Hansler was the first person to be knighted by Queen Victoria after her accession to the throne in 1837: he was elected F.R.S. in 1838.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Book by Sir John Jacob Hansler entitled Dyspepsia. Or the Autobiography of an Invalid. Containing many singular Adventures and Providential Escapes during an eventful life, interspersed with a Variety of Original Anecdotes, useful Information, Medical Recipes from some of the first Galens of the late and the most celebrated Esculapians of the present Day-the whole compiled with an earnest Desire to promote Health and Longevity. As well as Truth and Amusement ... In two Volumes. Mainly holograph, but with passages written by another hand, probably that of a lady. The latest date found in the text is 1837, and the diary proper seems to end in 1835, having been begun in about 1808. The book is dedicated to H.R.H. Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex [1773-1843], and was apparently prepared for the press, but no record of its publication has been traced.

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:

2 vols. in 8 parts. 4to. 24 × 191/2 cm. Unbound. Some margins frayed, and (paper) covers damaged. Both volumes (each in 4 parts) paginated 1-414 and 1-414, total of 828 pages.

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:

Purchased 1928.

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: Feb 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Dyspepsia | Signs and symptoms, digestive | Signs and symptoms | Pathological conditions, signs and symptoms
Hypochondriasis | Somatoform disorders | Mental disorders
Mental diseases | Psychopathology | Psychiatry
Recipes | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Mental disorders x Mental diseases

Personal names
Hansler | Sir | John Jacob | 1788-1867 | Knight | physician

Corporate names

Places