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BLUNDELL, James (1790-1878): notes from his lectures on midwifery and the diseases of women and children

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1538 S89

Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Title: BLUNDELL, James (1790-1878): notes from his lectures on midwifery and the diseases of women and children

Date(s): 1828-1829

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 vol

Name of creator(s): Merrick | William | 1828-1829 | medical student

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

James Blundell was born, 1790; educated first by the Revd Thomas Thomason, and then at the United Borough Hospitals by his maternal uncle, the physiologist John Haighton, he graduated MD at Edinburgh, 1813; began lecturing in London on midwifery, 1814; soon after began to lecture on physiology; Lecturer in Midwifery and as Lecturer in Physiology at Guy's Hospital, 1818; Professor of Obstetrics and Lecturer on the Diseases of Women; left Guy's Hospital, 1834; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1838; retired, 1847; died, 1878.
Publications:
Researches Physiological and Pathological (1824)
Principles and Practice of Obstetricy (1834)
Observations on some of the More Important Diseases of Women (1837)

William Merrick gained a certificate to practice as an apothecary, 10 Nov 1831.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript notes by William Merrick, taken from lectures on 'midwifery and the diseases of women and children', given by James Blundell at Guy's Hospital, 1828-1829.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single volume.

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Physical characteristics:

Bound in a volume.

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No additional finding aids.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

From the collection of Roy Dobbin.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in September 2007.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Biographical details for Blundell, Oxford DNB.