GB 0100 KCLCA KH/PP7 - FERGUSSON, Professor Sir William (1808-1877)

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GB 0100 KCLCA KH/PP7 1827-1853 Collection level (fonds) 0.5 box or 0.005 cubic metres Fergusson , Sir , William , 1808-1877 , Knight , Professor of Surgery
Born,1808, educated University of Edinburgh, from 1826, pupil, prosector and demonstrator, Old Surgeon's Hall, Edinburgh, under the anatomist Dr Robert Knox, 1828; surgeon, Edinburgh Royal Dispensary, 1831-1836; surgeon, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, 1836-1840; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, 1829; Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1836; appointed Professor of Surgery, King's College London, and surgeon, King's College Hospital, 1840, Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1840, Fellow, 1844, Vice-President, 1869, President, 1870, Hunterian Orator, 1871; Fellow of the Royal Society, 1848, President of the British Medical Association, 1873; Surgeon in Ordinary to Albert, Prince Consort of Queen Victoria, 1849; Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, 1855; Sergeant Surgeon, 1867; resigned as Professor of Surgery, King's College, 1870; died, 1877.

Publications: Case of aneurism of the insominata (Edinburgh, 1841); Account of the dissection of a patient in whom the subclavian artery had been tied for axillary aneurism (Edinburgh, 1841); A system of practical surgery (Edinburgh, 1841); The introductory lecture delivered at King's College, London, on opening the medical session of 1848-49 (London, 1848); Lectures on the progress of anatomy and surgery during the present century (London and Edinburgh, 1867); The Hunterian Oration for 1871 (London, 1871).

King's College Hospital.

File of case notes mainly relating to the work of Dr Robert Knox and William Fergusson at the Old Surgeon's Hall and Edinburgh Royal Dispensary, but also referring to earlier cases, 1827-1837, including an operation to correct a perforated anus in a young child, with accompanying correspondence recalling the case, 1841, and operations to rectify a hernia and hare lip, infant limb fractures, defects of the spermatic cord, and a post mortem examination of the abdominal cavity; printed prospectus of the summer classes in practical anatomy and operative surgery undertaken by Dr Robert Knox, 1832; single volume of case notes made by Fergusson while at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, 1839-1840, including examples of necrosis, syphilis, frost bite, but principally fractures, mainly of the tibia, femur, fibula and cranium.

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 Services.
English
English

Summary guide entry on-line.

King's College London College Archives holds further entries relating to Fergusson's career in King's College London Council Minutes (Ref: KA/C/M); King's College Hospital Medical Board Minutes (Ref: KH/MB/M); King's College London In-Correspondence (Ref: K/IC).

Royal College of Surgeons of England holds Fergusson's diaries, notes and papers, 1845-1877 (See HMC MS papers of British scientists, 1600-1940 (1982)); National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division holds letters of Fergusson, 1842-1875 (Ref: MSS 4061-4331).

Sources: Herbert Willoughby Lyle, King's and some King's men (London, 1935); Dictionary of national biography; National Register of Archives. Entry compiled by Geoff Browell. 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. 18 May 2000 Anatomy Biology Diseases Documents Edinburgh Royal Dispensary Fergusson , Sir , William , 1808-1877 , Knight , surgeon Gastrointestinal diseases Hernia Information sources Injuries Knox , Robert , 1791-1862 , anatomist and ethnologist Medical records Medical sciences Old Surgeon's Hall , Edinburgh Pathology Royal Infirmary , Edinburgh Surgery Primary documents

King's College Hospital.

File of case notes mainly relating to the work of Dr Robert Knox and William Fergusson at the Old Surgeon's Hall and Edinburgh Royal Dispensary, but also referring to earlier cases, 1827-1837, including an operation to correct a perforated anus in a young child, with accompanying correspondence recalling the case, 1841, and operations to rectify a hernia and hare lip, infant limb fractures, defects of the spermatic cord, and a post mortem examination of the abdominal cavity; printed prospectus of the summer classes in practical anatomy and operative surgery undertaken by Dr Robert Knox, 1832; single volume of case notes made by Fergusson while at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, 1839-1840, including examples of necrosis, syphilis, frost bite, but principally fractures, mainly of the tibia, femur, fibula and cranium.

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 Services.

• English

• Latin

English

King's College London College Archives holds further entries relating to Fergusson's career in King's College London Council Minutes (Ref: KA/C/M); King's College Hospital Medical Board Minutes (Ref: KH/MB/M); King's College London In-Correspondence (Ref: K/IC).

Summary guide entry on-line.

Royal College of Surgeons of England holds Fergusson's diaries, notes and papers, 1845-1877 (See HMC MS papers of British scientists, 1600-1940 (1982)); National Library of Scotland, Manuscripts Division holds letters of Fergusson, 1842-1875 (Ref: MSS 4061-4331).

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