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Identity statement
- Reference code(s)
- GB0100 TH/PP57
- Title
- SMART, Thomas (fl 1786-1845)
- Date(s)
- 1777-[1824]
- Level of description
- Collection (fonds)
- Extent and medium of the unit of description (quantity, bulk, or size)
- 1 volumes
Context
- Name of creator(s)
Smart, Thomas, d.1845, medical student
- Administrative / Biographical history
Thomas Smart, entered St Thomas's Hospital as a pupil, Feb 1786. He practiced in London, and then Cheshunt until he retired in 1830. He died in Tottenham in 1845. Henry Cline: born, London, 1750; educated, Merchant Taylors' School; apprenticed to Mr Thomas Smith, surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, 1767; diploma from Surgeons' Hall, 1774; Lecturer on anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital, 1781-1811; Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, 1784-1811; examiner at the College of Surgeons, 1810; master of the College of Surgeons, 1815, president, 1823; delivered the Hunterian oration, 1816, 1824; died, 1827. Publications: On the Form of Animals (Bulmer & Co, London, 1805).
- Archival history
Presented to St Thomas Hospital Medical School Library in 1888 by Charles William Herbert Smart, great grandson of Thomas Smart.
- Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.
Content & structure
- Scope and content
Papers of Thomas Smart comprising lecture notes of 'Mr Cline's physiological, anatomical, and chirurgical lectures', [1790], delivered 1786-1787, taken by Smart when a student.
Conditions of access & use
- Conditions governing access
- Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archives and Corporate Records Services.
- Language/scripts of material
English
- Finding aids
Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984).
Allied materials
- Existence and location of originals
King's College London College Archives
- Related units of description
Cline's Lecture notes, 1788-1805, held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, (reference: MSS 1672-83); lecture notes are also held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and Birmingham University Special Collections Department (reference: 1958/iii/30-32).
Notes
- Note
Previous reference: M29
Description control
- Archivist's Note
Sources: Dictionary of National Biography CD-ROM (Oxford University Press, 1995); Historical Manuscripts Commission's On-Line National Register of Archives; Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984); British Library Public On-line catalogue. Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.
- 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.
This catalogue is made available under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. This catalogue may be updated from time to time in order to reflect additional material and/or new understandings of the material.
- Date(s) of descriptions
April 2002. Revised January 2004
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Subjects
- Anatomy
- Autopsies
- Biology
- Documents
- Forensic medicine
- Health services
- Higher science education
- Information sources
- Medical education
- Medical personnel
- Medical profession
- Medical records
- Medical sciences
- Patients
- People
- People by occupation
- Personnel
- Physicians
- Physiology
- Preventive medicine
- Social sciences
- Social welfare
- Surgeons
- Surgery
- Systems of medicine
- Vaccination
Personal names
- Cline, Henry, 1750-1827, Surgeon
- Smart, Thomas, fl 1787-1790, Medical student
Corporate names
- King's College London College Archives
- St Thomas' Hospital, London
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