Clinical Reports Society of Guy's Hospital

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 G/S1
Held at	: King's College London College Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/library/archivespec/ ›
Full title	: Clinical Reports Society of Guy's Hospital
Date(s)	: 1836-1874
Level of description	: Collection (fonds) View parent record
Extent	: 168 volumes and 62 folders
Name of creator(s)	: Guy's Society for Clinical Reports

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Guy's Society for Clinical Reports was established in 1836 by pupils, with the support of the Treasurer Benjamin Harrison. The Society's aim was 'to preserve and disseminate useful information collected by pupils from the Hospital'. The influence of Thomas Hodgkin appears to have been instrumental in the establishment of the Society.

All students attending the hospital were eligible to be members. The students of the Society were allotted in groups to each Physician and Surgeon to report selected cases. They met once a week in the clincial report room of the hospital to describe the cases of most interest. Reports of each case were to be drawn up in 'a condensed tabular shape according to a formula arranged by the society', and were expected to be in minute detail. The wards were arranged in two divisions, and their reports were given to the Secretary on alternate weeks, the completed cases extracted and the papers returned. A daily list of admissions of the previous day and a journal of cases recording all cases in the hospital were also kept in the report room. In 1846 it was made obligatory for all students to report cases, partly due to the success of the Clinical Report Society.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Guy's Society for Clinical Reports, 1836-1874, comprising general reports, 1836-1845, comprising annual and half yearly reports of the Society; surgical and clinical registers for various wards of Guy's Hospital, 1837-1848, containing brief details of patients, including name, complaint, treatment and outcome; case reports, 1836-1845, giving detailed reports on patients admitted to Guy's Hospital including the name of the physician or surgeon, and in some volumes arranged by type of complaint, such as injuries/diseases of the nervous system, lungs and appendages, lymphatics, skin or cellular tissue, urino-genital system, fevers and poisoning;

case reports of patients at Guy's Hospital taken by the pupils of surgeons and physicians, 1847-1866, recording details such as name, description of condition, symptoms, treatment and progress, comprising surgical and some clinical case reports of patients of Mr John Hilton and Mr Charles Aston Key, 1851-1866; surgical and some clinical case reports of patients of Mr Bransby Blake Cooper and Mr John Birkett, 1847-1866, including some volumes arranged by ward, such as patients admitted to the Accident Ward, 1853-1866; surgical case reports of patients of Mr Bransby Blake Cooper and Mr Edward Cock, 1850-1851; surgical case reports of patients of Mr Edward Cock, 1848-1866, including some volumes arranged by ward, with indexes of medical conditions; surgical case reports of patients of Mr John Morgan, 1847-1850; surgical case reports of patients of Mr John Frederick France, 1847-1850; surgical case reports of patients of Mr Alfred Poland, 1856-1866, arranged by ward; surgical case reports of Mr Henry Oldham and Mr Thomas Bryant's patients, 1856-1866; surgical case reports of patients of Dr Benjamin Guy Babington admitted to Charity Ward, c1854-1855; surgical case reports of patients of Mr John Cooper Forster, 1857-1861; surgical case reports of operations performed on patients admitted to Guy's Hospital, 1872-1874;

rough case notes of patients of surgeons and physicians at Guy's Hospital, recording details such as name, disease, treatment, diet and outcome, covering patients of Mr John Hilton, [1857-1858]; Mr Edward Cock, [1857-1858]; Mr John Cooper Forster, [1857-1861]; Mr Alfred Poland, [1857-1858]; Mr John Frederick France, 1857-[1858]; Mr Thomas Bryant, 1857-[1858]; Mr John Birkett, [1857-1860]; Dr William Withey Gull, [1857-1858]; Dr William Withey Gull and Dr Frederick William Pavy, 1865-1866; Dr Henry Marshall Hughes, [1857-1858]; Dr Samuel Osborne Habershon, [1857-1858]; Dr Thomas Addison, [1857-1858]; Dr George Hilaro Barlow, [1857-1858]; Dr Samuel Wilks, 1857-1858; volumes of rough case notes of surgical cases at Guy's Hospital, 1870-1871.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in the scope and content.

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogues are available in the reading room of the College Archives.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Mr Guy's Hospital 1726-1948 H C Cameron (Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1954); Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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:
April 2002; November 2002