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Ross-on-Wye Medical Practice: notebooks

Identity Statement

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7521-7523
Held at: Wellcome Library
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Full title: Ross-on-Wye Medical Practice: notebooks
Date(s): 1861-1932
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s): Green | Arthur Llewellyn Baldwin | fl 1902-1970 | physician
Green | William Edward | fl 1867-1922 | physician
Cam | Walter Holcroft | fl 1909-1938 | physician
Lloyd | George Marner | fl 1934-1995 | physician
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The earliest individual concerned, William Edward Green, trained at Sydenham College, Birmingham, and the Birmingham General Hospital; he passed as MRCS in 1867 and as LSA in 1869. He practised at Sandown (Isle of Wight) before settling at Ross-on-Wye, where he spent the remainder of his career. He last appears in the Medical Directory in 1922. Arthur Llewellyn Baldwin Green, presumably his son, passed as MRCS and LRCP in 1902 and joined the same practice, last appearing in the Medical Directory in 1970. Another member of the practice, Walter Holcroft Cam, passed as MRCS and LRCP in 1909 and last appears in the Medical Directory for 1938.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Three notebooks connected to the same Ross-on-Wye medical practice including notebook from William Edward Green’s student days, 1861, containing notes on anatomy and biochemistry, pharmaceutical formulae, notes on childbirth and notes on physiology and chemistry; general notebook of William Edward Green, the cover bearing a faded label reading "Club Prescription: Bate's Charity" and notebook of Walter Holcroft Cam, Arthur Llewellyn Baldwin Green and George Marner Lloyd, recording particular cases and noteworthy items from the medical press, 1932.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Wellcome Institute Library by the Royal College of General Practitioners, October 1997. Originally presented to the Royal College by Dr George Marner Lloyd FRCGP, who passed as MRCS and LRCP in 1934 and who took the place of Walter Holcroft Cam in the practice.

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2009

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