IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.856-857
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Affleck, Sir James Ormiston (1840-1922)
Date(s): 1897, 1898
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Affleck | Sir | James Ormiston | 1840-1922 | Knight | Physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The author obtained his MD at Edinburgh in 1869, and was elected FRCP in 1875, and was Professor of Clinical Medicine at Edinburgh University in 1885. He was knighted in 1911 [Cf. B.M.J. 1922, i, pp. 617, 618.]
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Lectures delivered at Dr. Affleck's Class of Physic, Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh. Winter Session 1897-1898: On the Practice of Medicine. Holograph notes taken by Dr John Dixon Comrie [1875-1939]. Written on the rectos only, with inserted printed summaries pasted in: and in Vol. I, a 'General Outline of the Course'. Produced in Edinburgh.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
In 2 volumes.
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. 4to. 231/2 x 18 cm. Original half-calf binding.
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).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by Mrs. Comrie, 1939.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008