IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 S76
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: YOUNG, Thomas (1730-1783): notes on his lectures on midwifery
Date(s): 1776
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 1 vol.
Name of creator(s): Steavenson | Robert | fl 1776 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Thomas Young was born, 1730; MD, University of Edinburgh, 1761; apprenticed as an apothecary and surgeon in Edinburgh, becoming a master surgeon in 1755; joined the Incorporation of Surgeons, 1751; Deacon of the Incorporation of Surgeons, 1756-1762; Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh, 1756-1783; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1762; created a Lying-In Ward at the Royal Infirmary to give clinical lectures which eventually became the Edinburgh Maternity Hospital; died, 1783.
Robert Steavenson was educated at the University of Edinburgh; member of the Medical Society of Edinburgh, 1776; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, 1777.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Manuscript notes taken by Robert Steavenson on 'A complete course of lectures on midwifery and on the diseases of pregnant and puerperal women and of children' from lectures delivered by Thomas Young, Edinburgh, 21 Jul 1776.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item
Conditions governing access:
Conditions governing reproduction:
Physical characteristics:
Bound in a volume.
Finding aids:
No additional finding aids.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Purchased by the College Library in October 1974.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in August 2007.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
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: Jul 2008