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Date(s)
- 1851-1853 (Creation)
Level of description
Subseries
Extent
2 volumes
Scope and content
Book of handwritten notes and sketches, Oct-Dec 1851, taken by Reid from lectures on physiology delivered by Professor Robert Bentley Todd, and Professor Sir William Bowman, King's College London; volume of handwritten notes from lectures given by Professor Sir William Fergusson on the principles and practice of surgery, Oct-Dec 1851, and from clinical lectures given by Fergusson and Professor Richard Partridge, 1852-1853, with several caricatures of staff and other sketches.
System of arrangement
2 volumes as above.
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born, 2 June 1833; medical student, King's College London, 1851; served in the Crimean War, 1855-1856.
Publications: Memories of the Crimean War, January 1855 to June 1856 (St Catherine Press, London, 1911); Soldier-surgeon. The Crimean war letters of Dr Douglas A Reid, 1855-1856 edited by Joseph O Baylen and Alan Conway (University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, [1968]).
Repository
Custodial history
King's College Hospital.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
Handlist available in the reading room of the College Archives.
Existence and location of originals
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Archivist's note
Sources: H Willoughby Lyle King's and some King's men (Oxford University Press, London, 1935); British Library OPAC 97. Compiled by Annabel Dodds.