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