IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-MERRS
Held at: Royal College of Physicians
Title: MERRIMAN, Samuel (1771-1852)
Date(s): 1814
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 1 item
Name of creator(s): Merriman | Samuel | 1771-1852 | physician and accoucheur
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1771; education, the free grammar school, Marlborough and a school in Old Burlington Street, London; medical education mainly under his paternal uncle, also Samuel Merriman, a distinguished obstetrician; qualified, 1800; member of the Society of Apothecaries, 1800; initially practised as an apothecary but began to specialise in midwifery; from 1808 he was physician accoucheur, consulting physician accoucheur, and vice-president at the Westminster Dispensary; employed by the board of St George's, Hanover Square, to attend all difficult births in the parish, 1808; physician accoucheur to the Middlesex and Westminster lying-in hospitals, 1809; lectured on obstetrics at the Middlesex Hospital, 1810-; taught at St Bartholomew's Hospital, 1820-1821; died, 1852.
Publications: Synopsis of the Various Kinds of Difficult Parturition (1814)
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Samuel Merriman's annotated copy of A Synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition, 1814.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
All requests should be referred to the Archivist.
Finding aids:
Available at the Royal College of Physicians.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Presented to Dr Arthur Voelcker by his friend George L Merriman, Aberdeen, March 25, 1900.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by Dr A F Voelcker, 1926.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008