GB 1538 S79 - HAIGHTON, John (1755-1823): notes from his lectures on midwifery, c1798

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Donated to the College Library by The Matron of the Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, in 1960.

GB 1538 S79 [1798] Collection (fonds) 1 item Ricards , Jasper D , fl 1798 , medical student

John Haighton was born, Lancashire, about 1755; pupil of Else at St Thomas's Hospital; Surgeon to the guards; Demonstrator of Anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital, resigned, 1789; Lecturer in Physiology, [1788], and Midwifery with Dr Lowder, St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals; conducted numerous physiological experiments; M D; Fellow, Royal Society; presided at meetings of the Physical Society at Guy's Hospital; joint editor of Medical Records and Researches, 1798; assisted Dr William Saunders in his Treatise on the Liver, 1793; silver medal of the Medical Society of London, 1790; his nephew, Dr James Blundell began to assist him in his lectures, 1814, and took the entire course from 1818; died, 1823.

Publications include: 'An Attempt to Ascertain the Powers concerned in the Act of Vomiting,' in Memoirs of the Medical Society of London (ii. 250) (1789); A syllabus of the Lectures on Midwifery delivered at Guy's Hospital and at Dr Lowder's and Dr Haighton's Theatre in ... Southwark (London, re-printed 1799); A case of Tic Douloureux ... successfully treated by a division of the affected nerve. An inquiry concerning the true and spurious Cæsarian Operation, etc (1813).

Jasper D Ricards entered the United Hospitals (St Thomas' and Guys), 10 Sep 1798.

Donated to the College Library by The Matron of the Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast, in 1960.

Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in September 2007.

Manuscript notes by Jasper D Ricards taken from lectures on the 'Principles and Practice of Midwifery' delivered by John Haighton.

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English

Bound in a volume.

No additional finding aids.

Other notes taken from Haighton's lectures can be found in (Ref: S83, S92 and S93).

Compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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.

Jul 2008 Midwifery Teaching methods Lectures (teaching method) Higher science education Medical education Nursing Medical sciences Haighton , John , 1755-1823 , physiologist

Transferred from the Library to the College Archives in September 2007.

Manuscript notes by Jasper D Ricards taken from lectures on the 'Principles and Practice of Midwifery' delivered by John Haighton.

Single item

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English

Other notes taken from Haighton's lectures can be found in (Ref: S83, S92 and S93).

No additional finding aids.

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.

• Engels