IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1538 S96
Held at: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
Title: Casebooks relating to surgical cases in Bristol Royal Infirmary
Date(s): 1897-1898
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 vols
Name of creator(s): Unknown
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Bristol Royal Infirmary was founded by Paul Fisher, a wealthy city merchant, 1735; in 1904, Sir George White saved the hospital from a major financial crisis; in 1948 it was acquired by the National Health Service.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Casebooks relating to surgical cases in Bristol Royal Infirmary comprising casebook entitled 'Crosby Leonard Surgical Cases', 1897, detailing 8 cases including renal calculus, fibroadenoma of breast, prolapse of uterus, scirrhus of breast, inguinal hernia, vesical calculus, ovarian cystoma and fractured patella and casebook entitled 'Suple Surgical Cases', 1898, detailing 8 cases including fibromyoma of uterus, stricture of uterus, ovarian cystoma, tubercular arthritis of knee, hydatid cyst of liver, perforative appendicitis, acute bronchocele and scirrhus of breast.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
By volume.
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Finding aids:
No additional finding aids.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
From the collection of Miles Phillips.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in September 2007.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
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