Walker, John Kenworthy (fl 1809-1873)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0094
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	: Walker, John Kenworthy (fl 1809-1873)
Date(s)	: 1809-1849
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Walker | John Kenworthy | fl 1809-1873 | physician

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

John Kenworthy Walker, son of Sir William Walker (1753-1825) and Martha Kenworthy, obtained his MB (Edinburgh and London) in 1811, and his MD (Cantab) in 1820. He practised at Deanhead, near Huddersfield, and was Consulting Physician to the Huddersfield Infirmary. He published two articles in the Gentleman's Magazine, 'On the Primitive Language' in Volume 26, 1846, and 'On Roman Inscriptions in Britain' in Volume 37, 1852. Walker's last entry in the Medical Directory (provincial) was in 1873.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of John Kenworthy Walker, 1809-1849, comprising a manuscript volume containing notes of lectures made whilst studying for his MB at Edinburgh University, where James Gregory was Professor of Medicine. Topics include phlogosis; supporatio, pus, gangrena and phlegmon; opthalmia; phrenitis and cyanche tonsillarus; cyanche maligna, 1809; innoculatio variola, vaccine innoculation, ruboela, uiticana, pemphigus, aptha, and haemorrhagia; and a formula for cholera medicines by J Macaulay of Leeds, 1849.

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:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

The provenance of the volume is not known.

Allied Materials

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner
Source: Index to the Gentleman's Magazine, Medical Directory's 1853, 1870, 1873, and Huddersfield and District History website at http://homepage.eircom.net/~lawedd/TITLESM-Z.htm

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