Page, Herbert Markant (fl 1873-1917)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0156
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	: Page, Herbert Markant (fl 1873-1917)
Date(s)	: 1890-1891
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 5 photographs
Name of creator(s)	: Page | Herbert Markant | fl 1873-1917 | surgeon

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Herbert Markant Page studied to be a doctor of medicine at Brussels in 1882. He had become a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1873 and a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1874. He had also studied Public Health at Cambridge in 1879. His career history included Resident Medical Assistant at the General Hospital, Birmingham; Medical Officer of Health at Redditch Unitary District; and Honorary Surgeon at Smallwood Hospital. He was a member of the British Medical Association; the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society; and the Royal Sanitary Institute. He was also a fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Herbert Markant Page, 1890-1891, comprising 5 photographs mounted on board showing figures from an article by Page on a mylacephalous acardiac foetus published in Transactions of the Obstetrical Society, Volume XXXIII, 1891. The figures are of the specimen and placenta, and are titled as follows: "Figure 1) Anterior Lateral (left) view. Omphalosite."; "Figure 2) Anterio Lateral (right) view. Omphalosite."; "Figure 3) Perinaeum - Omphalosite."; "Figure 4) Placenta - Omphalosite."; and "Figure 5) Dissection of Omphalosite." The photographs are accompanied by a summary sheet titled An Aprosopous Anencephalic Monster (Companion to a normal living twin) August 15th 1890. The summary sheet gives details of the case, descriptions of the photographs, and a copy of the index to figure five.

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:

Archival Information

Archival history:

The specimen in the photographs was presented to the Museum at Queen's College, Birmingham. The photographs were located in a parcel with some drawings to illustrate work by Alban Henry Griffith Doran on diseases of the Fallopian Tubes. (See MS0155/4/5).

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by Alban Henry Griffith Doran (FRCS).

Allied Materials

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Medical Directories 1874, 1910, 1917

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:
Sep 2008