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Baker, Thomas (1710-1770)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.5780-5781

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Baker, Thomas (1710-1770)

Date(s): 1732-1770

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Baker | Thomas | 1710-1770 | surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Thomas Baker was Surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, London.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Journal and account book of Thomas Baker comprising journal of a visit to Paris containing narratives of visits to the Surgeons' College of Saint-Côme, and to the hospitals of Les Invalides, L'Hôtel-Dieu, and La Charité. At the latter Baker witnessed operations for fistula in ano and facial abscess by Sauveur François Morand (1697-1733), whose collection on the pathology of bones he also inspected and account book containing accounts of his income and expenditure. Included are accounts of annual income from surgery and bleeding, and from named apprentices, dressers and surgical pupils at St Thomas' Hospital, London, where Baker held the post of Surgeon from 1739. On ff. 1, 2, 40, 41 and on the end-papers are notes by Baker and others on his family and on surgeons at St Thomas' Hospital, 1703-1768.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

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 Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, 1999).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased from Henry Bristow, 1990.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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
Bone diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Bones | Musculoskeletal system | Anatomy | Biology
Fistula | Pathological conditions, anatomical | Pathological conditions, signs and symptoms
Hospitals | Health services
Phlebotomy | Blood specimen collection | Punctures | Therapeutics
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Surgeons | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
Therapy | Medical sciences
Surgeons x Physicians
Therapeutics x Therapy
Medical institutions
Musculoskeletal diseases
Personnel

Personal names
Baker | Thomas | 1710-1770 | surgeon

Corporate names
St Thomas' Hospital | London

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Paris | France | Western Europe | Europe