Wallace, Thomas (1680-1763)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0114 MS0180
Held at	: Royal College of Surgeons of England   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/archives/ ›
Full title	: Wallace, Thomas (1680-1763)
Date(s)	: 1710
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Wallace | Thomas | 1680-1763 | physician

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Thomas Wallace (1680-1763) was a physician practising in Whatfield, Suffolk. He is listed as a medic in P J and R V Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics (1988).

Ward names are indicated in the volume, and research conducted by E Muirhead Little in 1928, for an article in the British Medical Journal, shows that the wards are in St Thomas's Hospital, London.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Thomas Wallace, 1719, comprising a volume written in Latin, containing case notes of patients; lists of symptoms, diseases, and treatments; rules and definitions of arithmetical progression; an article describing the volume, by E Muirhead Little, from the British Medical Journal, 8 Dec 1928; and a letter from the donor, W Reeve Wallace, 27 Mar 1934.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English and Latin.

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

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Donated by W Reeve Wallace, descendant of Thomas Wallace, in 1934.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Anya Turner.

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:
Sep 2008