Prize Essays of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 TH/ES
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	: Prize Essays of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School
Date(s)	: [1834]-1928
Level of description	: Sub-fonds of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School records View parent record
Extent	: 8 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: St Thomas's Hospital Medical School

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Essays were regularly submitted by students at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in competition with each other. There were several prizes available, some funded by the lecturers themselves.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Prize essays of St Thomas's Hospital, [1834]-1928, comprising an essay by Marc Anthony Bazille Corbin on typhus fever, [1834], a clinical medicine prize essay; essay by Richard Hodges on haemorrage, 1843, a surgical prize essay; an essay by Edward Clapton on sciatica, 1855, a student's prize essay; 'Essay on the heart', submitted for the Grainger Testimonial Prize by an unknown student, ('Cordifolia'), 1865, containing pencil drawings; essay by Henry Percy Potter on the naked-eye anatomy of the brain and spinal cord, 1874, a Grainger Testimonial prize essay; essay by F G Parsons titled 'Anatomy and physiology of the knee, ankle and tarsal joints', submitted for the Grainger Testimonial Prize, 1886; Sutton Sams Prize Essay comprising case notes by Hubert Carey Trowell on ten cases of carcinoma of the breast admitted to St Thomas's Hospital, 1928, including pen and ink drawings; case notes, [1894-1895], containing detailed notes on surgical cases at St Thomas's Hospital, with temperature charts and sketches, by an unknown physician ('Resurgam').

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged as outlined in 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:

Corbin's essay on typhus fever, [1834] was presented to St Thomas's Hospital by N R Turnbull.

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

Allied Materials

Related material:

Notes possibly taken by Marc Anthony Bazille Corbin, on Benjamin Travers' lectures on diseases of the eye, [1834] (TH/PP TRAVERS) are held by King's College London.

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984). 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