GB 0114 MS0069 - Poland, Alfred (1822-1872)

1 volume

GB 0114 MS0069 1845-1846 Collection (fonds) 1 volume Poland , Alfred , 1822-1872 , ophthalmic surgeon

Alfred Poland was born in London, in 1822. He was educated at Highgate, in Paris, and in Frankfurt. After qualifying he became Demonstrator of Anatomy; then Assistant Surgeon to Guy's Hospital in 1849; Surgeon in 1861; and was placed in general charge of the Ophthalmic Department. He was Surgeon to the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, 1848-1861, but he gradually gave up ophthalmic practice due to ill health. He won an honorarium of fifty guineas for his Triennial Prize Dissertation,The Origin, Connection and Distribution of the Nerves of the Human Eye and its Appendages. He won the Fothergillian Prize with the Gold Medal for his essay Injuries and Wounds of the Abdomen, at the Medical Society of London, in 1853. He died in 1872.

Donated by Mr [?] Eastes. This volume was probably passed to the donor by his father, George Eastes, FRCS, who was the House Surgeon and then Surgical Registrar at Guy's Hospital in the 1860s.

Papers of Alfred Poland, 1845-1846, comprising a volume titled Surgical Analysis of cases reported by the Clinical Society during the last six months of 1845 and the months of January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September 1846. Alfred [Poland] containing a table of contents; lists of cases including detailed patient information; and a letter concerning the deposit of the volume with the Library.

As outlined in Scope and Content.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

English

Downton Accession Book, 1941-1945.

Compiled by Anya Turner.

Source: The Lives of the Fellows of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, Volume 2: MACE-YOU, p 184.

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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Donated by Mr [?] Eastes. This volume was probably passed to the donor by his father, George Eastes, FRCS, who was the House Surgeon and then Surgical Registrar at Guy's Hospital in the 1860s.

Papers of Alfred Poland, 1845-1846, comprising a volume titled Surgical Analysis of cases reported by the Clinical Society during the last six months of 1845 and the months of January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September 1846. Alfred [Poland] containing a table of contents; lists of cases including detailed patient information; and a letter concerning the deposit of the volume with the Library.

As outlined in Scope and Content.

By written appointment only.

No photocopying permitted.

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English

Downton Accession Book, 1941-1945.

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.

• inglês