Medical and Physical Society of St Thomas's Hospital

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 TH/MP
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	: Medical and Physical Society of St Thomas's Hospital
Date(s)	: 1841-1992
Level of description	: Sub-fonds of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School View parent record
Extent	: 9 volumes, 22 files
Name of creator(s)	: Medical and Physical Society | St Thomas's Hospital

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Medical Society of St Thomas's Hospital, later renamed the Medical and Physical Society, met to hear and discuss a dissertation and exchange medical news and cases. The society was open to physicians, surgeons and students.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Medical Society, later Medical and Physical Society of St Thomas's Hospital, 1841-1964, comprising minutes of the Society, 1841-1850, 1868-1878, 1894-1938, 1942-1964; members book, 1892-1901;

prize debate papers read before the Society, by Frederick Rowland Barker on the medical education of women, [1874]; Frederick Gordon Brown on diptheria, 1860; Frederick Henry Ward on diabetes, 1864; Frederick Edgar Cockell on anaesthetics, 1873; Ebenezer James Marshall on Hospitals- their past history and present condition, [1873]; paper on dropsy, 1864, by an unidentified student; William Allingham on anasarca albuminuria, 1854; James Vincent Bell on aneurism, [1860]; George Deansfield Brown on diabetes, 1851; Charles William Chaldecott on a case of gangrene from cold, 1851, and surgical essay on mortification, 1850; William Nathan Chipperfield on some cases of anaemia, with remarks upon the pathology and treatment of the disease, 1853, and some cases of phlebitis with remarks upon the varieties, pathology and treatment of the disease, 1854; Thomas Boor Crosby on the nature, causes and treatment of erysipelas, 1851; John White Keyworth on diseases of the jaw bones, as seen in Lucifer-match makers, 1850; Henry Lankester on Bright's Disease, 1851; James Earle Morton on iritis, 1853; John Shepherd on epilepsy, 1851; William Harling Sissons on neuralgia, 1860; William Henry Stone on neuralgia, 1855; essay on the treatment of acute rheumatism and it's complication pericarditis, by an unidentified second year student, [1860];

also attendance register 1892-1901; Secretary's files 1966-1991; printed programmes 1888-1892

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The records are arranged 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 catalogue

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
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:
May 2002. Revised Jun 2004