RUMSEY, Henry Nathaniel (fl 1785-1787)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0113 MS-RUMSH
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	: RUMSEY, Henry Nathaniel (fl 1785-1787)
Date(s)	: 1785-1787
Level of description	: fonds
Extent	: 16 vols
Name of creator(s)	: Rumsey | Henry Nathaniel | fl 1785-1787 | surgeon

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

George Fordyce was born, 1736; educated, University of Aberdeen; apprenticed to study medicine under his uncle, Dr John Fordyce; Edinburgh University, 1754-1758; MD, 1758; studied anatomy under the famous anatomist Bernhard Siegfried Albinus in Leiden, 1759; returned to England, 1759; lectured on chemistry in London, 1759-; lectured on materia medica and the practice of physic, 1764-; licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, 1765; Physician to St Thomas' Hospital, 1770; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1778; died, 1802.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes from the lectures of George Fordyce at his house in Essex Street, Strand, for a period extending over 30 years on subjects including clinical lectures, acute diseases, chemistry, chronic diseases, diseases of women and children, materia medica and the natural history of the human body. Transcribed, mainly from short-hand notes, by Henry Rumsey, one of his pupils, 1785-1787.

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Language/scripts of material:
English

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Unknown

Conditions governing access:

Records are open for consultation.

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All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

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Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

Archival Information

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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