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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Clarke, James Fernandez (1812-1875)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0080

Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England

Title: Clarke, James Fernandez (1812-1875)

Date(s): 1829

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Clarke | James Fernandez | bap 1812-1875 | medical writer and surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

James Fernandez Clarke was born in Olney, Buckinghamshire and baptised in 1812. He became apprenticed to C Snitch, a general practitioner in Brydges Street, Covent Garden, in 1828. Clarke spent some time at Cadell's Library on the Strand, and became aquainted with literature and literary people. He entered Dermott's Medical School in Gerrard Street, Soho, in 1833. He was Dermott's amanuensis for a time, and then assisted with the short-lived London Medical and Surgical Journal. In 1834 he wrote a report on a case of Joseph Lister's, who was impressed and introduced him to Thomas Wakely, editor of The Lancet. Wakely appointed Clarke an assistant and he worked for The Lancet for 30 years, as well as being a clinical reporter for hospitals and for various medical societies. He became a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, in 1837. He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and was Senior Surgeon to the Dorcas Charity, in 1852 . He was a Fellow of the Medical Society of London, an Honorary Associate of the Royal Medical and Botanical Society, and a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Academy of Surgery, Madrid. After completing 30 years service for The Lancet, Clarke published his reminisences in the Medical Times and the Gazette. These were reproduced as Autobiographical Recollections of the Medical Profession, in 1874. He died in 1875.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of James Fernandez Clarke, 1829, comprising a volume titled Notes of a Reader Volume I containing information relating to topics including drunkeness; stammering; the nervous system; travels in Turkey and Palestine; classification of the animal kingdom; painters and painting; idiosyncracies; the pursuit of knowledge; poetry; juvenile delinquency; and natural history.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

By written appointment only.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No photocopying permitted.

Finding aids:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1928) by Victor G Plarr.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: Dictionary of National Biography, Volume X, Medical Directories.

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
Animal classification | Classification systems | Controlled languages | Indexing languages
Drunkenness | Social problems
Juvenile delinquency | Delinquency | Social problems
Knowledge | Epistemology
Nervous system | Anatomy | Biology
Painters | Artists
Painting | Fine arts
Poetry | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Speech and language impairments | Diseases | Pathology
Travel

Personal names
Clarke | James Fernandez | bap 1812-1875 | medical writer and surgeon

Corporate names

Places
Palestine | Middle East
Turkey | Middle East