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Lowder, William (d 1801)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2665-2666, 3332-3337 and 7789

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Lowder, William (d 1801)

Date(s): 1780-1805

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 7 volumes

Name of creator(s): Lowder | William | fl 1778-1801 | obstetrician
Haighton | John | 1755-1823 | physiologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

William Lowder graduated doctor of medicine, Aberdeen, 1775; licentiate of the College of Physicians, 1786; practised midwifery; lectured at Guy's Hospital and at the anatomy theatre he and John Haighton ran in St. Saviour's churchyard, Southwark, died, 1801.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Lectures in Midwifery by William Lowder, 1780-1805, in some cases collaborating with John Haighton.

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:

3 bl. ll. + 517 pp. + 6 ll. (last 3 bl.). 8vo. 20 x 121/2 cm. Original boards. Back-strip wanting.

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 1915 (acc.36490), 1916 (acc.38763), 1924 (acc.43239C), 1927 (acc.45943), at Sotheby's 9/12/1931, Lot 500 (part) and Phillip's sale, 5 Nov. 1999, lot 694 (acc.351381).

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
Education, medical | Education, professional | Education
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
Obstetrics | Medical sciences

Personal names
Haighton | John | 1755-1823 | physiologist
Lowder | William | fl 1778-1801 | obstetrician

Corporate names

Places