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Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Casebooks relating to surgical cases in Bristol Royal Infirmary


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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Clinical medicine | Medical sciences
Gynaecology | Medical sciences
Medical registers | Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Obstetrics | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
Primary documents

Personal names

Corporate names
Bristol Royal Infirmary

Places
Bristol | Avon | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe