CLINE, Henry (1750-1827)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0100 TH/PP CLINE
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	: CLINE, Henry (1750-1827)
Date(s)	: 1777-[1824]
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 7 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Cline | Henry | 1750-1827 | surgeon

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Henry Cline: born, London, 1750; educated, Merchant Taylors' School; apprenticed to Mr Thomas Smith, surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, 1767; diploma from Surgeons' Hall, 1774; Lecturer on anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital, 1781-1811; Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, 1784-1811; examiner at the College of Surgeons, 1810; master of the College of Surgeons, 1815, president, 1823; delivered the Hunterian oration, 1816, 1824; died, 1827.
Publications: On the Form of Animals (Bulmer & Co, London, 1805).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Henry Cline, 1777-[1824], comprising three notebooks, 1777-[1824], labelled 'pathology and surgery', 'anatomy and physiology', and ' effects of the mind on diseases' containing notes on pathological conditions and contemporary surgical practice, with individual case histories, details of patients inoculated by Cline, 1778-1789, his post-mortem examination of Charles James Fox, account of influenza, 1782; notes on a course of lectures on anatomy, physiology and surgery, [1790]; notes on lectures on surgery, [1818], delivered 1805-1806.

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 Archives and Corporate Records Services.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

Archival Information

Archival history:

The notes on a course of lectures on anatomy, physiology and surgery, [1790], were owned by R Edmondson, a surgeon, and were presented to St Thomas Hospital Library by A C Hudson in 1949.

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

Allied Materials

Related material:

Cline's lecture notes, [1777-1824] held by King's College London holds lecture notes (Reference: G/PP1/28; G/PP1/43; G/PP2/7; TH/PP Hunter; TH/PP Rayner; TH/PP Savory; TH/PP Smart; TH/PP Valentines; TH/PP Warren' TH/PP Whitefield).

Lecture notes, 1788-1805, held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, (reference: MSS 1672-83); lecture notes are also held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and Birmingham University Special Collections Department (reference: 1958/iii/30-32).

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Dictionary of National Biography CD-ROM (Oxford University Press, 1995); Historical Manuscripts Commission's On-Line National Register of Archives; Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984); British Library Public On-line catalogue. 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. Revised January 2004