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Gidney, Eleazer (1797-1876)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0114 MS0087

Held at: Royal College of Surgeons of England

Title: Gidney, Eleazer (1797-1876)

Date(s): 1824

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): Gidney | Eleazer | 1797-1876 | dentist x Gedney | Eleazer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Eleazer Gedney was born in New York, in 1797. Under the altered name of Gidney rather than Gedney, he was apprenticed to Dr James L van Kleeck, of Poughskeepsie, in 1811. He transferred to Dr Abel Catlin, of Litchfield, Connecticut, from 1813-1817. In 1816, while still in Litchfield, Gidney advertised a remedy for cancer using handbills with testimonials from patients. He began to study dentistry at Baltimore and New York, in 1817. He published A Treatise on the Structure, Diseases and Management of the Human Teeth while living in Utica, in 1824. He travelled to Canada, where he practiced in Toronto and then Quebec in 1826. He then travelled to London and Paris to increase his professional knowledge. He attended courses of lectures in dental science and practice including those by Thomas Bell, James Snell and A F Talma in 1831-1832. He began to practise in Manchester in 1832. He was elected an honorary Fellow of the newly formed American Society of Dental Surgeons in 1840. He died in 1876.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Eleazer Gidney, 1824, comprising a manuscript of Treatise on the Structure, Diseases and Management of the Human Teeth; and a certificate of copyright dated 14 May 1824 for registration of Treatise on the Structure, Diseases and Management of the Teeth, awarded by the Clerk of the Northern District of New York.

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Additional manuscripts catalogue.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

This volume was microfilmed in 1957.

Related material:

John Menzies Campbell "Eleazar Gidney: 1797-1876, A Widely Travelled Dentist, A contribution to Dental History", The Dental Magazine and Oral Topics Aug 1950. A reprint of this article is held in the Royal College of Surgeons Library, TRACTS DY/GID

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Anya Turner.
Source: John Menzies Campbell "Eleazar Gidney: 1797-1876, A Widely Travelled Dentist, A contribution to Dental History", The Dental Magazine and Oral Topics, Aug 1950.

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
Copyright | Intellectual property | Civil law | Legal systems | Law
Dentistry | Medical sciences
Tooth | Anatomy | Biology

Personal names
Gidney | Eleazer | 1797-1876 | dentist x Gedney | Eleazer

Corporate names

Places
New York | USA | North America