SOCIETY OF COLLEGIATE PHYSICIANS

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0113 MS-COLLP
Held at	: Royal College of Physicians   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/archive-and-historical-library-collections ›
Full title	: SOCIETY OF COLLEGIATE PHYSICIANS
Date(s)	: 1767-1798
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 1 item
Name of creator(s)	: Society of Collegiate Physicians

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

In 1767 Licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians established the Society of Collegiate Physicians, a dissentient body agitating for a change in the College rules. Fellows were not to be admitted to its membership. The Society wound up in 1798.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Minute book of the Society of Collegiate Physicians, 1767-1798.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

Open for consultation, unless otherwise indicated.

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased at Messrs. Sotheby's, March 21, 1895.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: 'The Siege of Warwick Lane: Together with A Brief History of the Society of Collegiate Physicians (1767-1798)' by Lloyd G Stevenson , Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences , Volume VII, Number 2, pp. 105-121.

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:
Aug 2008