Key Information
Reference code
G/PP/1/44
Title
Letters from J Chaning Pearce to his father relating to his studies at Guy's Hospital Medical School, including an outbreak of Cholera in London, 1832-1833
Date(s)
- 1832 - 1833 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
Oversized
Scope and content
Two letters from J Chaning Pearce, 1833, to his father James Pearce, Surgeon, Bradford, Wilts, concerning the outbreak of Cholera in London and cases he attended, 16 Feb 1832; and relating to his winning of the first anatomical prize given by Mr [Bransby Blake] Cooper including a description of the prize examination, 5 May 1833.
General Information
Name of creator
(1811-1847)
Biographical history
Born in Wiltshire, 1811, son of surgeon James Pearce, apprenticed to his father then qualified as a surgeon from Guy’s Hospital, died in 1847.