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CURRIE, William (fl 1768-1805)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-CURRW

Held at: Royal College of Physicians

Title: CURRIE, William (fl 1768-1805)

Date(s): 1769

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Currie | William | fl 1768-1805 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

William Currie (fl 1768-1805) graduated MD Edinburgh on September 12, 1770, with a thesis 'De Phthisi Pulmonali', and became in the same year a Member of the Medical Society of Edinburgh. In the Medical Register for 1780 he is given as one of the three Physicians to the Chester General Infirmary; the other two being Drs Denton and John Haygarth. He is not to be confused with William Currie (1754-1829), of Philadelphia.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Case records, Chester General Infirmary, 1769.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Unknown

Conditions governing access:

Open

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:

Provenance of the collection is unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.

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


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Hospitals | Health services
Medical history | Personal history | History
Medical records | Documents | Information sources
Medical institutions
Primary documents

Personal names
Currie | William | fl 1768-1805 | physician

Corporate names

Places
Chester | Cheshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe