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King's College London College Archives

Prize Essays of Guy's Hospital Medical School


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 G/PP5

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: Prize Essays of Guy's Hospital Medical School

Date(s): 1844-1916

Level of description: Series of Guy's Hospital Medical School records

Extent: 18 volumes

Name of creator(s): Guy's Hospital Medical School

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Astley Cooper Prize was established by the will of Astley Cooper, to be given to the best original essay or treatise on a given subject in anatomy, physiology or surgery 'from time to time proposed by the physicians and surgeons of Guy's Hospital'. The prize was awarded every 3 years, the first in 1844, and according to Astley Cooper's will the prize winning essays were presented to the Medical School Library.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Essays written by Guy's Hospital Medical School students for prizes, 1844-1915, comprising Astley Cooper Prize winning essays, namely 'Drawings illustrating the Physiology of the Thymus Gland', 1844 by J Simon; 'Pyoemia or Suppurating Fever', by Dr Braidwood of Birkenhead, 1867, (winner, 1868); 'Diseases and Injuries of the Spinal Cord, with plates', [1874], by D J Hamilton; 'An Essay on Diseases and Injuries of Nerves and their Surgical Treatment together with the Operations performed upon Nerve Trunks', by Anthony A Bowlby, 1885 (winner, 1886); 'Tubercular Diseases of Bones and Joints' by William Watson Cheyne, [1889], comprising volume I Pathology, volume II Treatment, volume III Clinical cases, Description of Microscopical Specimens; 'A Dissertation on the Structure and use of the Spleen', by H Gray, [1853]; 'The Physiology and Pathology of the Pituitary Body' by W Blair Bell, [1915];

description of medical and surgical cases for the Richard Bredin Prize for Clinical Study, 1896, by B Burnett Ham;

essays submitted for the Charles Oldham Prize for Ophthalmology, comprising 'Some affections of the eye in congenital syphilis', by Maurice Mitman, 1922; 'Some tumours of the eye', by Donald Francis Durward, 1923; 'Sympathetic ophthalmia', by J R Ratcliffe, 1925;

essays submitted for the Treasurer's Prize, comprising 2 essays on 'The Diagnosis of acute abdominal conditions' by unidentified students, 1908.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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 and Corporate Record Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogues are available in the reading room of the College Archives.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

The Astley Cooper prize winning essays were presented to the Library of the Medical School.

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

King's College Archives holds minutes of prize funds committees, (Reference: G/adminstrative section) and minutes of the Board of Electors of scholarships and studentships (Reference: G/scholarships).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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: December 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Awards | Social norms | Social behaviour
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students

Personal names
Bell | William | Blair- | 1871-1936 | gynaecologist and obstetrician x Blair-Bell | William
Bowlby | Sir | Anthony Alfred | 1855-1929 | 1st Baronet | surgeon
Braidwood | fl 1867 | physician of Birkenhead
Cheyne | Sir | William Watson | 1852-1932 | Knight | Surgeon Rear Admiral
Durward | Donald Francis | fl 1923 | medical student
Gray | H | fl 1853 | medical student
Ham | B | Burnett | fl 1896 | medical student
Hamilton | D J | fl 1874 | medical student
Mitman | Maurice | fl 1922 | medical student
Ratcliffe | J R | fl 1925 | medical student
Simon | J | fl 1844 | medical student

Corporate names
Guy's Hospital Medical School

Places