IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0100 G/S7
Held at: King's College London College Archives
Title: Pupil's Physical Society of Guy's Hospital
Date(s): 1830-1966
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: approximately 11 volumes and 70 folders
Name of creator(s): Pupil's Physical Society of Guy's Hospital
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Pupil's Physical Society of Guy's Hospital was originally started in 1830 as a student's society for the discussion of subjects of medical and surgical importance, showing of interesting cases and reading papers. It was managed by a Committee of Presidents, elected by the society from the senior students and house officers. The ordinary meetings were attended by students only, and intended as a forum for discussing medical problems.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Pupil's Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, 1830-1966, comprising minutes, 1830-1966, and copies of papers presented to the Society, covering a wide range of subjects such as diseases, poisoning, wounds, fractures, pregnancy and surgery; printed session programmes of meetings and papers, 1930-1960; lists of members, 1874-1913, with expenses and minutes of Presidents' meetings, [1887]-1913;
student essays awarded the prize of the Pupil's Physical Society and presented to meetings of the Society, 1831-1966;
papers of the Secretary of the Society, 1870-1958, including manuscripts of speeches to meetings, c1870-1891; correspondence relating to Society business, including attendance at meetings, management of Guy's Hospital Gazette and award of essay prizes, 1871-1891; bills and receipts, [1884-1958]; invitations to speakers; descriptions of medical cases presented to meetings, 1923-1958.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
As outlined in the scope and content.
Conditions governing access:
Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive and Corporate Record Services.
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
Detailed catalogues are available in the reading room of the College Archives.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
Date(s) of descriptions: October 2001; revised November 2002