Ballingall, Sir George (1780-1855)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MS.6905
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Ballingall, Sir George (1780-1855)
Date(s)	: 1808-1852
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 70 items
Name of creator(s)	: Ballingall | Sir | George | 1780-1855 | Knight | Regius Professor of Military Surgery at Edinburgh University
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born, 1780; Regius Professor of Military Surgery at Edinburgh University; died, 1855.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Sir George Ballingall, 1808-1852, including correspondence and papers collected by Ballingall, used to illustrate his lectures at Edinburgh University; correspondence with David Barry (1780-1835) FRS, on colon inflammation and other matters; letters, memoranda and case studies on venereal disease, amputations and other surgical procedures, army and navy punishments, hospital conditions and tropical medicine including with Sir Andrew Halliday (1781-1839) and Joshua Brookes (1761-1833) and printed material with diagrams of litters for troops in India.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Arranged in two sections by size.

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:

Described in the Library's typescript supplements to its published manuscript catalogues.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Julian Browning, 1992.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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:
Jul 2008