Ramsay, Robert Anstruther, (1887-1975)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/81
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Ramsay, Robert Anstruther, (1887-1975)
Date(s)	: 1914-1952
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: Ramsay | Robert Anstruther | 1887-1975 | surgeon
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

R A Ramsay was a general surgeon who held posts to the Metropolitan Hospital and the Belgrave Hospital for Children, both in London. He pioneered the adoption in Britain of Ramstedt's operation for pyloric stenosis in infants. For further biographical details see The Lancet, 1975, ii, 936, British Medical Journal, 1975, ii 413.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Surgical notebooks and notes of Robert Ramsay on operation for congenital hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus, c 1917-1934.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in two sections: Surgical casenotes and 'Notes on Congenital Hypertrophic Stenosis of the Pylorus'.

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:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

These papers were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in 1985 by Ramsay's son, Michael Ramsay.

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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