GB 0100 TH/PP21 - DENMAN, Thomas (1733-1815)

1 volume

Acquired by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library.
GB 0100 TH/PP21 1782 Collection (fonds) 1 volume Denman , Thomas , 1733-1815 , physician
Born, Bakewll, Derbyshire, 1733; educated at Bakewell grammar school; studied medicine at St George's Hospital, London from 1853; surgeon's mate in the navy, surgeon, 1757; attached to the ship Edgar to 1763; continued his medical studies, attending the lectures on midwifery of Dr Smellie; graduated MD, Aberdeen, 1764; began practice as a physician, Winchester; surgeon to a royal yacht; lectured on midwifery, and continued to do so for fifteen years; physician accoucheur to the Middlesex Hospital, 1769-1783; licentiate in midwifery, College of Physicians, 1783; moved to Feltham, Middlesex, 1791 and reduced his practice; made the practice of inducing premature labour in cases of narrow pelvis and other conditions general in England; died, London, 1815.

Publications include: Essays on the Puerperal Fever, and on puerperal convulsions (J Walter, London, 1768); A Letter to Dr. Richard Huck, on the construction and method of using vapor baths [London, 1768]; Aphorisms, respecting the distinction and management of preternatural presentations [London, c 1780]; Directions for the application of the forceps [London, c 1780]; An Essay on Uterine Hemorrhages depending on Pregnancy and Parturition (J Johnson, London, 1785); An Essay on Difficult Labours (J. Johnson, London, 1787-1791); An Essay on Natural Labours (J Johnson, [London,] 1786); An Essay on Preternatural Labours (J Johnson, London, 1786); A Collection of Engravings, tending to illustrate the generation and parturition of animals, and of the human species (J Johnson, London, 1787); An Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery (J Johnson, London, 1794, 95); Observations on the Cure of Cancer (J Johnson, London, 1810).

Acquired by St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library.

Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

Papers relating to Thomas Denman, comprising notes on his lectures on midwifery, 1782, taken by an unidentified student.

The records are arranged as outlined in the scope and content.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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 Archive and Corporate Record Services.
English

Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984).

Lecture notes by Denman, 1776-1778, (reference: MSS 2098-99), and biography by his daughter Sophia Baillie (reference: MS 5620) held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; lecture notes, 1780, held by the University of Kansas: Clendening History of Medicine Library; letters from Sir R Croft relating to a visit to Paris with the Duchess of Devonshire, held by the Vaughan Library.

Previous reference: M48
Sources: Historical Manuscripts Commission On-line National Register of Archives; British Library Public On-line catalogue; The Gynecologist in Victorian England website http://www.people.virginia.edu/~wwc2r/vicstudies/vicstudies.html; Dictionary of National Biography CD ROM (Oxford University Press, 1995); Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984). Compiled by Julie Tancell as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. 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. May 2002; Revised January 2003 Denman , Thomas , 1733-1815 , physician Higher science education Medical education Medical personnel Medical profession Medical sciences Midwifery Nursing Personnel Physicians Surgery People by occupation People

Transferred from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Library in 2002.

Papers relating to Thomas Denman, comprising notes on his lectures on midwifery, 1782, taken by an unidentified student.

The records are arranged as outlined in the scope and content.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

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 Archive and Corporate Record Services.

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English

Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984).

Lecture notes by Denman, 1776-1778, (reference: MSS 2098-99), and biography by his daughter Sophia Baillie (reference: MS 5620) held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; lecture notes, 1780, held by the University of Kansas: Clendening History of Medicine Library; letters from Sir R Croft relating to a visit to Paris with the Duchess of Devonshire, held by the Vaughan Library.

Previous reference: M48

Previous reference: M48

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.

• English