GB 1538 S92 - HAIGHTON, John (1755-1823): syllabus and student notes

1 vol.

[Presented to the College as part of the collection of Miles Phillips].

GB 1538 S92 1811-[1823] Collection (fonds) 1 vol. Hunter , John , Junior , fl 1811-1823 , 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).

John Hunter, possibly the author of these notes, was a student at Guy's Hospital, enrolling 19 May 1813 and 28 Jun 1815.

[Presented to the College as part of the collection of Miles Phillips].

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

Printed syllabus of the lectures on midwifery delivered at Guy's Hospital by John Haighton (London, 1811), extensively annotated and interleaved with shorthand notes by John Hunter Junior, presumably taken from Haighton's lectures, 8 Oct 1813.

Single item

English and English shorthand

Bound in a volume.

No additional finding aids.

Other notes taken from Haighton's lectures can be found in (Ref: S79, S83 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.

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

Printed syllabus of the lectures on midwifery delivered at Guy's Hospital by John Haighton (London, 1811), extensively annotated and interleaved with shorthand notes by John Hunter Junior, presumably taken from Haighton's lectures, 8 Oct 1813.

Single item

• Engels

• Latijn

English and English shorthand

Other notes taken from Haighton's lectures can be found in (Ref: S79, S83 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