Collectie GB 0120 GC/137 - Davies, Arthur (1858-1929)

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GB 0120 GC/137 1878-1916 Collection 1 box Davies , Arthur Templar , 1858-1929 , physician

Arthur Templar Davies, MD, FRCP (1858-1929), was a physician specialising in diseases of the chest. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. For most of his career he was associated with the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, London, at which his father Herbert Davies and grandfather Thomas Davies had both been Physician. He also served as Physician to the Bank of England, succeeding his father again, and Physician (in London) to the Royal Ventnor Hospital. During the First World War he was a member of staff of the Hospital for Officers at Fishmongers' Hall, London. His publications included editing Mechanisms of the Circulation through Diseased Hearts, by his father Dr Herbert Davies. Davies' career is summarised in Lives of the fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1826-1925 by G.H. Brown (London: Royal College of Physicians, 1955) (Munk's Roll, volume IV).

Presented by Mrs Davies in January 1930. Originally held by the Wellcome Library's Western Manuscripts department; transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in March 1992, at which time the material was given its current accession number. The Western Manuscripts department and Contemporary Medical Archives Centre merged to form the Wellcome Library's Archives and Manuscripts department in 2000.

Arthur Davies collection, 1878-1916, comprising certificates of attendance, letters of appointment, etc.; papers on tuberculosis; address to the Assurance Medical Society including material on life expectancy, neurasthenia and shell-shock; correspondence with Sir Humphrey Rolleston, Harrington Sainsbury and Clifford Allbutt.

As above in Scope and Content.

Open. 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.

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Entry compiled by Barbara Ball from the Wellcome Library online catalogue.

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.

February 2009 Davies , Arthur Templar , 1858-1929 , physician Actinomycetales infections Pathology Diseases Tuberculosis Mental disorders Somatoform disorders Neurasthenia Psychiatry Psychopathology Mental diseases Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Neuroses Ageing Life cycle Longevity Allbutt , Sir , Thomas Clifford , 1836-1925 , Knight , Regius Professor of Physic Cambridge Rolleston , Sir , Humphrey Davy , 1862-1944 , Knight , physician Sainsbury , Harrington , fl 1889-1912 , physician

Presented by Mrs Davies in January 1930. Originally held by the Wellcome Library's Western Manuscripts department; transferred to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in March 1992, at which time the material was given its current accession number. The Western Manuscripts department and Contemporary Medical Archives Centre merged to form the Wellcome Library's Archives and Manuscripts department in 2000.

Arthur Davies collection, 1878-1916, comprising certificates of attendance, letters of appointment, etc.; papers on tuberculosis; address to the Assurance Medical Society including material on life expectancy, neurasthenia and shell-shock; correspondence with Sir Humphrey Rolleston, Harrington Sainsbury and Clifford Allbutt.

As above in Scope and Content.

Open. 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.

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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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