Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1778 - 1813 (Creation)
- 1762 (Creation)
- 1725 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Scope and content
Guy's Hospital entry of Physician and Surgeon's pupils and dressers, 1778-1813': manuscript volume containing list of fees for physicians and surgeons pupils depending on length of stay; list of dressers and pupils entered under Jos[eph]Warner, James Franck, William Lucas, Benjamin Stead, Babington, William Cooper, Astley Cooper, Thompson Forster, Richard Stocker, in the stewardship of Mr Thomas Callaway, May 1778-Sep 1804. Includes name, whether dresser or pupil, length of stay, date of payment of hospital certificates; date certificate granted, and name and place of surgeon under whom they served time (prior to attending Guy's); list of gentlemen entered as apprentice to the surgeons, of Mr Guy's Hospital, 1762, 1784-Jun 1813. Includes date when entered, name, age, length of apprenticeship, time expired, date when certificate granted, when certificate paid, and name and place of surgeon to whom apprenticed, or where educated. Also contains memoranda relating to the practice of the apothecary, who was forbidden to take any apprentice or pupil, 1725; and loose page, (damaged) 'Terms of [attending] St Thomas's Hospital' contains list of fees for dressers and pupils, terms of admission, and availability of tickets of admission to operations.(Volume is extremely fragile)