Poland, Alfred (1822-1872)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0069
Held at	: Royal College of Surgeons of England   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/archives/ ›
Full title	: Poland, Alfred (1822-1872)
Date(s)	: 1845-1846
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Poland | Alfred | 1822-1872 | ophthalmic surgeon

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Alfred Poland was born in London, in 1822. He was educated at Highgate, in Paris, and in Frankfurt. After qualifying he became Demonstrator of Anatomy; then Assistant Surgeon to Guy's Hospital in 1849; Surgeon in 1861; and was placed in general charge of the Ophthalmic Department. He was Surgeon to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, 1848-1861, but he gradually gave up ophthalmic practice due to ill health. He won an honorarium of fifty guineas for his Triennial Prize Dissertation,The Origin, Connection and Distribution of the Nerves of the Human Eye and its Appendages. He won the Fothergillian Prize with the Gold Medal for his essay Injuries and Wounds of the Abdomen, at the Medical Society of London, in 1853. He died in 1872.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Alfred Poland, 1845-1846, comprising a volume titled Surgical Analysis of cases reported by the Clinical Society during the last six months of 1845 and the months of January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September 1846. Alfred [Poland] containing a table of contents; lists of cases including detailed patient information; and a letter concerning the deposit of the volume with the Library.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No photocopying permitted.

Finding aids:

Downton Accession Book, 1941-1945.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by Mr [?] Eastes. This volume was probably passed to the donor by his father, George Eastes, FRCS, who was the House Surgeon and then Surgical Registrar at Guy's Hospital in the 1860s.

Allied Materials

Related material:

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: The Lives of the Fellows of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Volume 2: MACE-YOU, p 184.

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