GREENHILL, William Alexander (1814-1894)
Identity Statement
Reference code(s) | : GB 0113 MS-GREEW |
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 | : GREENHILL, William Alexander (1814-1894) |
Date(s) | : 1839-1894 |
Level of description | : fonds |
Extent | : 30 items |
Name of creator(s) | : Greenhill | William Alexander | 1814-1894 | physician and sanitary reformer |
Context
Administrative/Biographical history:
Born, 1814; educated at a private school at Edmonton and at Rugby School, 1828-1832; Trinity College, Oxford, 1832; studied at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; visited Paris to gain knowledge of the hospital practice there, 1836-1837; physician to the Radcliffe, 1839; DM, 1840; member of the Theological Society; in the 1840s turned he studied Arabic and Greek medical writers and published a Greek and Latin edition of The Physiology of Theophilus (1842) and an English translation from the Arabic of Rhazes, entitled Treatise on the Small Pox and Measles (1847); became interested in sanitary matters, 1849; moved to Hastings, 1851; founded the Hastings Cottage Improvement Society in 1857 and remained its secretary until 1891; founded the London Labourers' Dwelling Society, secretary, 1862-1876; founded the Albert House Institution for Domestic Servants at St Leonards, Sussex; helped to found the local Mendicity Society for wayfarers; studied the writings of Sir Thomas Browne; editorial staff of the British Medical Journal;died, 1894.
Content
Scope and content/abstract:
Correspondence and papers of William Alexander Greenhill, 1839-1894, mainly relating to medical biography including notes on Galen; notes on the classification of animals; printed drawings of surgical instruments; notes on Arabic medicine and transcripts of Arabic texts; five engravings of Halle and engraving of A H Francke's Monument; prescriptions; biographical notes on doctors and other eminent men and correspondence, chiefly on his work on Galen.
Access & Use
Language/scripts of material:
English, Greek, Latin and Arabic.
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
Open
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:
Greenhill mss: Most of the manuscripts were presented to the Royal College of Physicians by Miss Katherine Greenhill, July 1896. A number of Dr Greenhill's papers relating to Galen and Arabian medicine had been sent to Dr J G Curtis, Columbia College, but these were returned, by direction of Miss Greenhill, to the Royal College of Physicians of London.
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Description Notes
Archivist's note:
Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.
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
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