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GOLDING, Widdows (fl 1788)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0113 MS-GOLDW

Held at: Royal College of Physicians

Title: GOLDING, Widdows (fl 1788)

Date(s): 1786-1788

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 1 item

Name of creator(s): Golding | Widdows | fl 1788 | surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Widdows Golding, surgeon, fl 1788.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Widdows Golding collection comprising a commonplace book containing records of cases at the London Hospital about the year 1786, including notes on operations performed by Richard Grindall, Henry Thompson, George Neale, and other surgeons; notes on surgery, midwifery and anatomy. (The anatomical notes are illustrated by fine water-colour drawings). 'A concise account of an epidemic fever which was in the united parishes of Newnam, Mongwell, Nufhill and Gray's in the year 1788' and notes on medicine. At the end is a large collection of receipts.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Single item

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
Anatomy | Biology
Commonplace books | Manuscripts | Documents | Information sources
Drugs | Pharmacology
Fever | Diseases | Pathology
Midwifery | Nursing | Medical sciences
Receipt | Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Surgery | Medical sciences
Body temperature changes

Personal names
Golding | Widdows | fl 1788 | surgeon

Corporate names
London Hospital

Places