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- 1819-1843 (Creation)
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2 volumes
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The author was surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital from 1826 to the time of his death. He had been elected F.R.S. in 1836, and was an original Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843.
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GB 0120 MSS.1916-1917 1819-1843 Collection (fonds) 2 volumes Crosse , John Green , 1790-1850
The author was surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital from 1826 to the time of his death. He had been elected F.R.S. in 1836, and was an original Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843.
Purchased 1970. (318544)
Midwifery. Obstetrical case books for 1819-1825 and 1833-1843. Compiler's holograph MSS.
The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
English
8vo. 20½ x 13 cm. Original vellum bindings, not uniform.
Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
Some of these cases are included in 'Cases in Midwifery', 1851, complied by Edward Copeman (1809-1880). A biography entitled 'A surgeon in the early 19th century' was published by his great-granddaughter, V.M. Crosse, in 1968.
Description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by S.A.J. Moorat. 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. August 2001 Clinical medicine Crosse , John Green , 1790-1850 , surgeon England Europe Medical sciences Midwifery Norfolk Norfolk and Norwich Hospital , Norwich Norwich Nursing Obstetrics Surgery UK Western Europe London
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Purchased 1970. (318544)
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Midwifery. Obstetrical case books for 1819-1825 and 1833-1843. Compiler's holograph MSS.
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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.
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- English
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- Latin
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Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).
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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.
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- English