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King's College London College Archives

Physical Society of the Students of the United Hospitals of St Thomas and Guy


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0100 G/S5

Held at: King's College London College Archives

Title: Physical Society of the Students of the United Hospitals of St Thomas and Guy

Date(s): 1812-1815

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Physical Society of the Students of the United Hospitals of St Thomas and Guy

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Physical Society of the Students of the United Hospitals of St Thomas and Guy met to discuss medical cases of interest and essays on medical subjects. After the establishment of an independent medical school by Guy's Hospital in 1825 both hospitals continued to support physical societies.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Physical Society of the Students of the United Hospitals of St Thomas and Guy, 1812-1815, comprising minutes of meetings, including cases and dissertations presented to the Society; rules of the Society and list of members.

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

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from Guy's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

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: November 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Learned societies | Associations | Organizations
Medical education | Higher science education
Medical students | Students
Physicians | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Surgeons | Medical personnel | Medical profession | Medical sciences
Surgery | Medical sciences
Surgeons x Physicians
Personnel

Personal names

Corporate names
Guy's Hospital | London
Physical Society of the Students of the United Hospitals of St Thomas and Guy
St Thomas' Hospital | London

Places