GB 0120 MSS.7625 and 8506-8507 - Hickman, Henry Hill M.R.C.S. (1800-1830), pioneer of anaesthesia

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GB 0120 MSS.7625 and 8506-8507

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Hickman, Henry Hill M.R.C.S. (1800-1830), pioneer of anaesthesia

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  • 1824-1976 (Creation)

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1 file and 2 volumes

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GB 0120 MSS.7625 and 8506-8507 1824-1976 Collection (fonds) 1 file and 2 volumes Hickman , Henry Hill , 1800-1830 , surgeon

MS.7625: nos. 4-7 transferred to Library holdings from the 1947 Wellcome Historical Medical Museum anaesthesia exhibition, original provenance not recorded. nos. 9-10, and presumably nos. 1 and 3 also, purchased from Charavay, Paris, May 1932. nos. 12-13 presented by Dr. W.G.H. Leslie of Australia, a descendant of Hickman, July 1967 and nos. 14-16 probably presented by Dr. W.D.A. [Dennis] Smith of Leeds University in 1976 (apparently neither batch of material was accessioned formally). The originals of MSS.8506-8507 belong to Dr Leslie amd were lent to Dr Smith who supplied the Institute with copies (with Dr. Leslie's permission) in 1977; no formal accession details were recorded.

Papers of Henry Hill Hickman, 1824-1976, comprising original material, facsimiles and research notes, mostly formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

English

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

In the Wellcome Library: The Wellcome Archives (WA) document the "rediscovery" of Hickman's work and the exhibition on him held at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930 (WA/HMM/EX/B). MS.6105, a notebook kept by John Lechmere, a half-pay naval officer living at Hereford, records a visit to Hickman in 1822. See MSS.7984-7986, 8124, 8149-8151, 8312-8315, 8348, 8442-8443, 8530, 8534 and 8573-8574 for more material relating to the medical historian and librarian Charles John Samuel Thompson (1862-1943) who was heavily involved in the rediscovery of Hickman's work. The papers of the anaesthetist Sir Robert Macintosh (PP/RRM) include material on the history of anaesthesia and contain a file on Hickman (PP/RRM/E.5/4).

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Jan 2009 Medical sciences Hickman , Henry Hill , 1800-1830 , surgeon

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

MS.7625: nos. 4-7 transferred to Library holdings from the 1947 Wellcome Historical Medical Museum anaesthesia exhibition, original provenance not recorded. nos. 9-10, and presumably nos. 1 and 3 also, purchased from Charavay, Paris, May 1932. nos. 12-13 presented by Dr. W.G.H. Leslie of Australia, a descendant of Hickman, July 1967 and nos. 14-16 probably presented by Dr. W.D.A. [Dennis] Smith of Leeds University in 1976 (apparently neither batch of material was accessioned formally). The originals of MSS.8506-8507 belong to Dr Leslie amd were lent to Dr Smith who supplied the Institute with copies (with Dr. Leslie's permission) in 1977; no formal accession details were recorded.

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Papers of Henry Hill Hickman, 1824-1976, comprising original material, facsimiles and research notes, mostly formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

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The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

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English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

In the Wellcome Library: The Wellcome Archives (WA) document the "rediscovery" of Hickman's work and the exhibition on him held at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930 (WA/HMM/EX/B). MS.6105, a notebook kept by John Lechmere, a half-pay naval officer living at Hereford, records a visit to Hickman in 1822. See MSS.7984-7986, 8124, 8149-8151, 8312-8315, 8348, 8442-8443, 8530, 8534 and 8573-8574 for more material relating to the medical historian and librarian Charles John Samuel Thompson (1862-1943) who was heavily involved in the rediscovery of Hickman's work. The papers of the anaesthetist Sir Robert Macintosh (PP/RRM) include material on the history of anaesthesia and contain a file on Hickman (PP/RRM/E.5/4).

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Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

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Wellcome Library

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In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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  • English

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