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Burroughs Wellcome Ltd.: historical material


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.8185-8186, 8188-8189, 8303-8307, 8321, 8524-8525, 8539

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Burroughs Wellcome Ltd.: historical material

Date(s): Early 20th century

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 14 volumes, 2 bundles

Name of creator(s): Doran | Alban Henry Griffith | 1849-1917 | surgeon
Thompson | Charles John Samuel | 1862-1943 | physician and local historian
Spielmann | Marion Harry Alexander | 1858-1948 | art historian
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Miscellaneous historical essays, written by individuals employed by or associated with the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Authors include Alban Doran (1849-1927), Charles Thompson (1862-1943) and Marion Spielmann (1858-1948).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by Marion Spielmann, 1925, and transferred from store, January 1935; received from WHMM, December 1935 and October 1939; transferred from WHMM filing cabinets, January 1957.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Related material:

In the Wellcome Library: The archives of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum are held as WA/HMM. Other papers of C.J.S. Thompson are held as MSS.7984-7986, 8124, 8149-8151, 8312-8315, 8348, 8442-8443, 8530, 8534, 8573-8574.

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Ancient civilizations | Ancient history | Historical periods
Antisepsis | Infection control | Communicable disease control | Public health practice | Public health | Health
Dentistry | Medical sciences
Health policy | Health
History of medicine | History
Medieval history | Historical periods
Medieval period | Historical periods
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
Nutrition | Physiology
Surgical instruments | Surgical equipment | Medical equipment | Scientific equipment | Equipment
Urine | Anatomy | Biology
Vaccination | Preventive medicine | Systems of medicine
Public health x Health policy
Museums
Pharmacology

Personal names
Doran | Alban Henry Griffith | 1849-1917 | surgeon
Spielmann | Marion Harry Alexander | 1858-1948 | art historian
Thompson | Charles John Samuel | 1862-1943 | physician and local historian

Corporate names
Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Places