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Haighton, John (1755-1823)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2663-2664

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Haighton, John (1755-1823)

Date(s): 1801-1810

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Haighton | John | 1755-1823 | physiologist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

John Haighton was physician and physiologist, and had worked under Cline and John Hunter. He qualified MD at London and lectured on midwifery and physiology at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, as well as lecturing on midwifery and obstetrics at an anatomy theatre in Southwark in collaboration with William Lowder. See the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for further information.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes from lectures in physiology given by John Haighton including notes on physiology produced in London by a student at St Thomas's Hospital and lectures on physiology or the laws of the animal oeconomy, taken down by Thomas Howell, Guy's Hospital 1810.

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: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

From the Carline Collection.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1924 and 1929.

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: Feb 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Physiology

Personal names
Haighton | John | 1755-1823 | physiologist

Corporate names
Guy's Hospital
St Thomas's Hospital

Places