BLUNDELL, James (1790-1878): notes from his lectures on midwifery and the diseases of women and children

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1538 S89
Held at	: Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/library-services/archives-and-heritage/archives/ ›
Full title	: BLUNDELL, James (1790-1878): notes from his lectures on midwifery and the diseases of women and children
Date(s)	: 1828-1829
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 vol
Name of creator(s)	: Merrick | William | 1828-1829 | medical student

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

James Blundell was born, 1790; educated first by the Revd Thomas Thomason, and then at the United Borough Hospitals by his maternal uncle, the physiologist John Haighton, he graduated MD at Edinburgh, 1813; began lecturing in London on midwifery, 1814; soon after began to lecture on physiology; Lecturer in Midwifery and as Lecturer in Physiology at Guy's Hospital, 1818; Professor of Obstetrics and Lecturer on the Diseases of Women; left Guy's Hospital, 1834; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, 1838; retired, 1847; died, 1878.
Publications:
Researches Physiological and Pathological (1824)
Principles and Practice of Obstetricy (1834)
Observations on some of the More Important Diseases of Women (1837)

William Merrick gained a certificate to practice as an apothecary, 10 Nov 1831.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Manuscript notes by William Merrick, taken from lectures on 'midwifery and the diseases of women and children', given by James Blundell at Guy's Hospital, 1828-1829.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single volume.

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Finding aids:

No additional finding aids.

Archival Information

Archival history:

From the collection of Roy Dobbin.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in September 2007.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Biographical details for Blundell, Oxford DNB.

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:
Jul 2008