GB 1538 S69 - BARNES, Robert Sydenham Fancourt (1849-1908): letters

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GB 1538 S69 1853-1892 Collection (fonds) 1 file Barnes , Robert Sydenham Fancourt , 1849-1908 , physician

Born, 1849; educated at Merchant Taylors' School, at a school in Honfleur, France; and Lincoln College, Oxford; studied clinical medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, and obstetrics in Dublin, at the Rotunda Hospital; worked at Marischal College, Aberdeen; graduated MD from Aberdeen University, 1875; returned to London and became closely associated with his father's practice; member the Royal College of Physicians, 1877; editorial staff of the British Medical Journal; member of the Board of Examination of Midwives, instituted by the Obstetrical Society of London (he subsequently transferred himself from this Society to the British Gynaecology Society); physician to the British Lying-in Hospital and the Great Northern Central Hospital, where he later became senior physician; physician to the St George's and St James's Dispensary; consulting physician at the Royal Maternity Charity and the Prudential Assurance Company; physician to the Chelsea Hospital for Women; Honorary Corresponding Fellow of the Societe de Gynecologie de Paris, the Gynaecological Society of Boston, USA, and the Societe Imperiale de Medecine, Istanbul (then Constantinople); by the mid-1890s Barnes had practically retired from hospital work, devoting himself entirely to private practice; died, 1908.

Publications:
A Manual of Midwifery for Midwives (9 eds., last 1902)
System of Obstetric Medicine and Surgery (jointly written with Robert Barnes)
'The Indications Afforded by the Sphygmograph in the Puerperal State', Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London (1875)
Perineorrhaphy by Flap Splitting
Martin's Atlas of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (translated and edited)
German English Dictionary of Medical Words
Neugebauer on Spondylolisthesis (for the New Sydenham Society)

Passed from the College Library's 'Autographed Letters Collection' to the Archives in August 2007.

Letters to Robert Sydenham Fancourt Barnes, 1853-1892, including from the following: Etienne-Jules Marey; Sir William MacCormac; Sir Thomas Spencer Wells; Jonathan Hutchinson; Alexander Simpson; Giuseppe Chiarleoni; the Société Impériale de Médecine, Constantinople; Francis Neugebauer; William Smoult Playfair; Charles Warner; John Hall Davis and Alfred Meadows.

Unarranged

English and French

Many of the letters are mounted.

No additional finding aids.

Compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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.

Jul 2008 Simpson , Sir , Alexander Russell , 1835-1916 , Knight , physician Playfair , William Smoult , 1836-1903 , Professor of Obstetric Medicine and the Diseases of Women and Children Meadows , Alfred , 1833-1887 , obstetric physician Marey , Étienne-Jules , 1830-1904 , French scientist and chronophotographer MacCormac , Sir , William , 1836-1901 , surgeon Hutchinson , Sir , Jonathan , 1828-1913 , Knight , Physician Davis , John Hall , d1884 , obstetric physician Barnes , Robert Sydenham Fancourt , 1849-1908 , physician Medical sciences Warner , Charles , 1846-1909 , actor x Lickfold , Charles John Wells , Sir , Thomas Spencer , 1818-1897 , surgeon Société Impériale de Médecine , Constantinople

Passed from the College Library's 'Autographed Letters Collection' to the Archives in August 2007.

Letters to Robert Sydenham Fancourt Barnes, 1853-1892, including from the following: Etienne-Jules Marey; Sir William MacCormac; Sir Thomas Spencer Wells; Jonathan Hutchinson; Alexander Simpson; Giuseppe Chiarleoni; the Société Impériale de Médecine, Constantinople; Francis Neugebauer; William Smoult Playfair; Charles Warner; John Hall Davis and Alfred Meadows.

Unarranged

• Engels

• Latijn

English and French

No additional finding aids.

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.

• Engels