IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-RUMSH
Held at: Royal College of Physicians
Title: RUMSEY, Henry Nathaniel (fl 1785-1787)
Date(s): 1785-1787
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 16 vols
Name of creator(s): Rumsey | Henry Nathaniel | fl 1785-1787 | surgeon
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
George Fordyce was born, 1736; educated, University of Aberdeen; apprenticed to study medicine under his uncle, Dr John Fordyce; Edinburgh University, 1754-1758; MD, 1758; studied anatomy under the famous anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus in Leiden, 1759; returned to England, 1759; lectured on chemistry in London, 1759-; lectured on materia medica and the practice of physic, 1764-; licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, 1765; Physician to St Thomas' Hospital, 1770; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1778; died, 1802.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Notes from the lectures of George Fordyce at his house in Essex Street, Strand, for a period extending over 30 years on subjects including clinical lectures, acute diseases, chemistry, chronic diseases, diseases of women and children, materia medica and the natural history of the human body. Transcribed, mainly from short-hand notes, by Henry Rumsey, one of his pupils, 1785-1787.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Unknown
Conditions governing access:
Records are open for consultation.
Conditions governing reproduction:
All requests should be referred to the Archivist.
Finding aids:
Available at the Royal College of Physicians.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Unknown
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.
Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008