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HOSPITAL PHARMACOPOEIA


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): ACC/2838

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: HOSPITAL PHARMACOPOEIA

Date(s): 1899-1922

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.08 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Guy's Hospital
St Thomas' Hospital | London x Infirmary of the Augustinian Priory of St Mary Overy | 1106-1215 x 5th London (City of London) General Hospital | 1915-1919

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

A pharmacopoeia is an official treatise containing listings of drugs approved for use in a hospital, with their formulations, standards of purity and strength, and uses.

For histories of the individual hospitals please see H09/GY for Guy's and H01/ST for Saint Thomas.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Pharmacopoeia of Guy's and Saint Thomas Hospitals inscribed J Langford Moore, and pharmacopoeia of the North Middlesex Hospital, Middlesex County Council, inscribed Jas Coutts.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

4 volumes.

Conditions governing access:

Available for general access.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright: City of London

Physical characteristics:

Fit

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Hospital pharmacopoeia deposited by Geoffrey Yeo, District Archivist, City and Hackney Health Authority, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 2BE, 21 June, 1990 (Acc 2838).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

See H09/GY for Guy's, H01/ST for Saint Thomas and BG/E and ACC/2712 for the North Middlesex Hospital.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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: January 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Drugs | Pharmacology
Hospitals | Health services
Medical history | Personal history | History
Pharmacopoeias | Documents | Information sources
Medical institutions

Personal names

Corporate names
Guy's Hospital
North Middlesex Hospital x Edmonton Workhouse x Edmonton Military Hospital x North Middlesex County Hospital
St Thomas' Hospital | London x Infirmary of the Augustinian Priory of St Mary Overy | 1106-1215 x 5th London (City of London) General Hospital | 1915-1919

Places