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Dixon, John (1832-1930)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2135-2195, 5191, 5950 and 6794

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Dixon, John (1832-1930)

Date(s): 1848-1903

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 63 volumes, 1 file

Name of creator(s): Dixon | John | 1832-1930 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

John Dixon was Medical Officer of Health for Bermondsey for many years, and died at the age of 98. He was a student at Guy's Hospital, London and these notes were probably made during this period: he took his MD at St Andrew's University in 1854. He practised in Bermondsey until his death, where he served as surgeon to the Surrey Dispensary and was a Justice of the Peace. He was a man of many interests, especially in public health, and gave popular lectures on hygiene, sanitation, etc. At one period of his life he took up astrology, and in his later years was an enthusiastic amateur photographer.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes by John Dixon on medical matters and on things of personal interest to him such as astrology and photography spanning his entire career, 1848-1903. MS.5191 comprises more formal material, namely certificates and indentures.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Within the main block of material (MSS.2135-2195) items are arranged chronologically. The remaining three manuscripts are separated from them not by any theme but simply through being catalogued at a different time.

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:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Dr Dixon in 1930.

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
Alcohol | Alcohols | Organic chemicals | Chemicals
Apprenticeship | Training methods
Birth | Life cycle
Chess | Play | Leisure time activities | Leisure
Clinical medicine | Medical sciences
Coffee | Plant products | Agricultural products
Dentistry | Medical sciences
Drinking | Eating | Nutrition processes | Nutrition physiology | Biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
Drug industry | Industry
Esperanto | International languages | Languages
Eye | Anatomy | Biology
Fees, medical | Economics, medical | Economics
Food | Agricultural products
Fossil fuels | Fuels
French (language) | Romance languages | Indo-european languages
German | Germanic languages | Indo-european languages
Health policy | Health
Hebrew | Semitic languages
Hygiene | Health
Indentures | Primary documents | Documents | Information sources
Light | Optics
Medical education | Higher science education
Medicine, traditional | Culture
Milk | Dairy products | Animal products | Agricultural products
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Recipes | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Sanitation | Environmental engineering
Surgeons | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Surgeons x Physicians
Board games
Face
Geography
Geology
Libraries
Liquids
Mineralogy
Personnel
Pharmacology
Photography
Physiology
Statistics

Personal names
Dixon | John | 1832-1930 | physician

Corporate names

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