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Royal College of Physicians

SOCIETY OF COLLEGIATE PHYSICIANS


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-COLLP

Held at: Royal College of Physicians

Title: SOCIETY OF COLLEGIATE PHYSICIANS

Date(s): 1767-1798

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Society of Collegiate Physicians

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

In 1767 Licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians established the Society of Collegiate Physicians, a dissentient body agitating for a change in the College rules. Fellows were not to be admitted to its membership. The Society wound up in 1798.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minute book of the Society of Collegiate Physicians, 1767-1798.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

Open for consultation, unless otherwise indicated.

Conditions governing reproduction:

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

Finding aids:

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased at Messrs. Sotheby's, March 21, 1895.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: 'The Siege of Warwick Lane: Together with A Brief History of the Society of Collegiate Physicians (1767-1798)' by Lloyd G Stevenson , Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences , Volume VII, Number 2, pp. 105-121.

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: Aug 2008


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Learned societies | Associations | Organizations
Medical societies | Societies | Associations | Organizations

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Society of Collegiate Physicians

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