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Medical and Physical Society of St Thomas's Hospital


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 TH/MP

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: Medical and Physical Society of St Thomas's Hospital

Date(s): 1841-1992

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 9 volumes, 22 files

Name of creator(s): Medical and Physical Society | St Thomas's Hospital

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Medical Society of St Thomas's Hospital, later renamed the Medical and Physical Society, met to hear and discuss a dissertation and exchange medical news and cases. The society was open to physicians, surgeons and students.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Medical Society, later Medical and Physical Society of St Thomas's Hospital, 1841-1964, comprising minutes of the Society, 1841-1850, 1868-1878, 1894-1938, 1942-1964; members book, 1892-1901;

prize debate papers read before the Society, by Frederick Rowland Barker on the medical education of women, [1874]; Frederick Gordon Brown on diptheria, 1860; Frederick Henry Ward on diabetes, 1864; Frederick Edgar Cockell on anaesthetics, 1873; Ebenezer James Marshall on Hospitals- their past history and present condition, [1873]; paper on dropsy, 1864, by an unidentified student; William Allingham on anasarca albuminuria, 1854; James Vincent Bell on aneurism, [1860]; George Deansfield Brown on diabetes, 1851; Charles William Chaldecott on a case of gangrene from cold, 1851, and surgical essay on mortification, 1850; William Nathan Chipperfield on some cases of anaemia, with remarks upon the pathology and treatment of the disease, 1853, and some cases of phlebitis with remarks upon the varieties, pathology and treatment of the disease, 1854; Thomas Boor Crosby on the nature, causes and treatment of erysipelas, 1851; John White Keyworth on diseases of the jaw bones, as seen in Lucifer-match makers, 1850; Henry Lankester on Bright's Disease, 1851; James Earle Morton on iritis, 1853; John Shepherd on epilepsy, 1851; William Harling Sissons on neuralgia, 1860; William Henry Stone on neuralgia, 1855; essay on the treatment of acute rheumatism and it's complication pericarditis, by an unidentified second year student, [1860];

also attendance register 1892-1901; Secretary's files 1966-1991; printed programmes 1888-1892

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The records are 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 and Corporate Record Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Previous Reference: M3, M6, M12, M36, M92, M3, M9, M13, M17, M18, M21, M22, M44, M81, M83, M96, M123, M125, M134, M141.

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: May 2002. Revised Jun 2004


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Anaemia | Diseases | Pathology
Anaesthesia | Medical sciences
Blood disorders | Diseases | Pathology
Brain diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Central nervous system diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Dermatology | Medical sciences
Diabetes | Diseases | Pathology
Diabetes mellitus | Diseases | Pathology
Epilepsy | Diseases | Pathology
Eye diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Hospitals | Health services
Learned societies | Associations | Organizations
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Neuralgia | Diseases | Pathology
Nutritional and metabolic diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Nutritional diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Oedema | Metabolic diseases
Skin and connective tissue diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Skin diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Surgery | Medical sciences
Women students | Students
Metabolic diseases x Nutritional diseases
Medical institutions
Social sciences
Social welfare

Personal names
Allingham | William | fl 1854 | medical student
Barker | Frederick Rowland | fl 1874 | medical student
Bell | James Vincent | fl 1860 | medical student
Brown | Frederick Gordon | fl 1860 | medical student
Brown | George Deansfield | fl 1851 | medical student
Chaldecott | Charles William | fl 1850-1851 | medical student
Chipperfield | William Nathan | fl 1853-1854 | medical student
Cockell | Frederick Edgar | fl 1873 | medical student
Crosby | Sir | Thomas Boor | 1830-1916 | Knight | surgeon and Lord Mayor of London
Keyworth | John White | fl 1850 | medical student
Lankester | Henry | fl 1851 | medical student
Marshall | Ebenezer James | fl 1873 | medical student
Morton | James Earle | fl 1853 | medical student
Shepherd | John | fl 1851 | medical student
Sissons | William Harling | fl 1860 | medical student
Stone | William Henry | fl 1855 | medical student
Ward | Frederick Henry | fl 1864 | medical student

Corporate names
Medical and Physical Society | St Thomas's Hospital
St Thomas' Hospital Medical School | London
St Thomas' Hospital | London

Places
Lambeth | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe