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WADDINGTON, Joshua (fl 1815-1817)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 G/PP1/62

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: WADDINGTON, Joshua (fl 1815-1817)

Date(s): 1815-1817

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 6 volumes

Name of creator(s): Waddington | Joshua | fl 1815-1817 | surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Joshua Waddington, FRCS, entered Guy's Hospital, London, as a pupil, Oct 1815.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Joshua Waddington, 1815-1817, comprising six manuscript volumes of notes from 'Lectures on midwifery and diseases of women and children, delivered at the theatre, Guy's Hospital, between the 1st of December 1816 and the 1st of March 1817, by John Haighton MD', includes index to subjects covered in lectures in the front of the volume, 275pp; 'Clinical cases and lectures taken by Joshua Waddington at Guy's Hospital between the 1st of Dec 1816 and 1st May 1817', index in the front of the volume listing names of patients and their disease, 372pp; 'Lectures on anatomy and the principal operations of surgery: delivered at the theatre, St Thomas's Hospital by Astley Cooper Esquire, Vol 1, 1 Jan-1 Jun 1816, 555ff; Vol 2, 1 Jan-1 Jun 1816, 545ff; Vol 3, 1 Oct 1815-1 Jun 1916, 673ff, with index to subjects covered, and 'Extracts from Lectures on the practice of medicine, delivered at Guy's Hospital by William Babington, MD FRS, and James Perry, ND, between 1 January and 1 June 1817', 286pp.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Arranged as outlined in the Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

This collection level description.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Acquired by Guy's Hospital Medical School Library.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

Papers relating to John Haighton include lecture notes [1809-1811] held by King's College London (TH/PP GRUGGEN), lecture notes 1801-1817, held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine (reference: MSS 2663-66), and lecture notes, 1815, held by McGill University, Canada. Correspondence and papers of Cooper are held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England; lecture notes, 1806-1807, are held by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (reference: Cooper); lecture notes, 1809-1815 (reference: MSS 1857-60, 5606) and 1816-1817 (reference: MS 7096) are held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; lecture notes, 1803-1832, are held by the McGill University, Osler Library, Canada; correspondence with Charles Lowe, 1824, held by Lincolnshire Archives (reference: Lowe); correspondence, 1823-1826, with Sir Robert Peel, held by the British Library, (reference: Add MSS 40359-90 passim); letters to T J Pettigrew, 1815-1838, held by Beinecke Library, Yale University; letters to the Duke of Wellington, 1833-1839, held by Southampton University Library (reference: MS 61); lecture notes, King's College London [1800-1811] (TH/PP Davies; TH/PP Gruggen; TH/PP Hulbert; TH/PP Rayner; TH/PP Ware; TH/PP Warren; TH/PP Williams; G/PP1/13).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Historical Manuscripts Commission On-line National Register of Archives. Compiled by Alison Field.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: October 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Anatomy | Biology
Hospitals | Health services
Medical education | Higher science education
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
Medical institutions
Personnel
Social welfare

Personal names
Babington | William | 1756-1833 | physician and mineralogist
Cooper | Sir | Astley Paston | 1768-1841 | 1st Baronet | surgeon
Haighton | John | 1755-1823 | physiologist
Waddington | Joshua | fl 1815-1817 | surgeon

Corporate names
Guy's Hospital | London
St Thomas' Hospital | London

Places
Southwark | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe