Fonds GB 0113 MS-GREEW - GREENHILL, William Alexander (1814-1894)

30 items

GB 0113 MS-GREEW 1839-1894 fonds 30 items Greenhill , William Alexander , 1814-1894 , physician and sanitary reformer

Born, 1814; educated at a private school at Edmonton and at Rugby School, 1828-1832; Trinity College, Oxford, 1832; studied at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford; visited Paris to gain knowledge of the hospital practice there, 1836-1837; physician to the Radcliffe, 1839; DM, 1840; member of the Theological Society; in the 1840s turned he studied Arabic and Greek medical writers and published a Greek and Latin edition of The Physiology of Theophilus (1842) and an English translation from the Arabic of Rhazes, entitled Treatise on the Small Pox and Measles (1847); became interested in sanitary matters, 1849; moved to Hastings, 1851; founded the Hastings Cottage Improvement Society in 1857 and remained its secretary until 1891; founded the London Labourers' Dwelling Society, secretary, 1862-1876; founded the Albert House Institution for Domestic Servants at St Leonards, Sussex; helped to found the local Mendicity Society for wayfarers; studied the writings of Sir Thomas Browne; editorial staff of the British Medical Journal;died, 1894.

Greenhill mss: Most of the manuscripts were presented to the Royal College of Physicians by Miss Katherine Greenhill, July 1896. A number of Dr Greenhill's papers relating to Galen and Arabian medicine had been sent to Dr J G Curtis, Columbia College, but these were returned, by direction of Miss Greenhill, to the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Correspondence and papers of William Alexander Greenhill, 1839-1894, mainly relating to medical biography including notes on Galen; notes on the classification of animals; printed drawings of surgical instruments; notes on Arabic medicine and transcripts of Arabic texts; five engravings of Halle and engraving of A H Francke's Monument; prescriptions; biographical notes on doctors and other eminent men and correspondence, chiefly on his work on Galen.

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English, Greek, Latin and Arabic.

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Imported from the RCP's Adlib catalogue; edited by Sarah Drewery.
Sources: Oxford DNB.

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.

Aug 2008 Scientific equipment Medical equipment Surgical equipment Culture Surgical instruments Medicine, arabic Medicine, traditional Zoology Animals History History of medicine Information sources Documents Prescriptions Literature Literary forms and genres Prose Biographies Equipment Francke , August Hermann , 1663-1727 , German Protestant churchman Galen , 129-[200 or 216] , ancient Greek physician Greenhill , William Alexander , 1814-1894 , physician and sanitary reformer

Greenhill mss: Most of the manuscripts were presented to the Royal College of Physicians by Miss Katherine Greenhill, July 1896. A number of Dr Greenhill's papers relating to Galen and Arabian medicine had been sent to Dr J G Curtis, Columbia College, but these were returned, by direction of Miss Greenhill, to the Royal College of Physicians of London.

Correspondence and papers of William Alexander Greenhill, 1839-1894, mainly relating to medical biography including notes on Galen; notes on the classification of animals; printed drawings of surgical instruments; notes on Arabic medicine and transcripts of Arabic texts; five engravings of Halle and engraving of A H Francke's Monument; prescriptions; biographical notes on doctors and other eminent men and correspondence, chiefly on his work on Galen.

Open

All requests should be referred to the Archivist.

• English

• Latin

English, Greek, Latin and Arabic.

Available at the Royal College of Physicians.

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