GB 0100 TH/PP54 - SAVORY, William (fl 1788-1789)

2 volumes

Presented to St Thomas Hospital Medical School Library by George C Peachy in 1903.
GB 0100 TH/PP54 1788-1789 Collection (fonds) 2 volumes Savory , William , fl 1788-1789 , medical student
William Savory was the son of William Savory of Brightwalton, Wantage. He was apprenticed at the age of 14 to Dr David Jones, Newberry, before becomming a student of the Borough Hospitals (Guy's and St Thomas's) in 1788-1789. He later became a member of the Surgeon's Company.

Henry Cline: born, London, 1750; educated, Merchant Taylors' School; apprenticed to Mr Thomas Smith, surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, 1767; diploma from Surgeons' Hall, 1774; Lecturer on anatomy, St Thomas's Hospital, 1781-1811; Surgeon, St Thomas's Hospital, 1784-1811; examiner at the College of Surgeons, 1810; master of the College of Surgeons, 1815, president, 1823; delivered the Hunterian oration, 1816, 1824; died, 1827. Publications: On the Form of Animals (Bulmer & Co, London, 1805).

William Saunders was born, Banff, 1743; educated, University of Edinburgh; graduated MD, 1765; began practice in London; licentiate of the College of Physicians, 1769; lectured on chemistry, pharmacy and on medicine; Physician, Guy's Hospital, 1770-1802; lectured on the theory and practice of medicine; Fellow, 1790, and Censor, 1791, 1798, 1805, 1813, College of Physicians; delivered the Gulstonian lectures, 1792; probably the first English physician to observe that in some forms of cirrhosis, the liver became enlarged and afterwards contracted; delivered the Harveian oration, 1796; Fellow, Royal Society, 1793; a founder member and first president, Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, 1805; Physician to the Prince Regent, 1807; retired from practice, 1814; died, 1817. Publications include: A Catalogue of the Materia Medica, printed for the use of such gentlemen as attend Dr Saunders's lectures on that subject, in London [London, 1760?]; Dissertatio ... de antimonio, etc (W Ruddiman, J Richardson & Soc, Edinburgh, 1765); A syllabus of lectures on chymistry [London?, 1766?]; A Syllabus of Lectures on Chymistry and Pharmacy ([London?] 1766); Compendium medicinæ practicum ad prælectiones accommodatum ... Editio altera emmendata (J Richardson, London, 1774); Institutes of therapeutics and materia medica (London, 1774); Observations and experiments on the power of the mephytic acid in dissolving stones of the bladder. In a letter to Dr Percival (London, 1777); Elements of the practice of physic, etc. (The general plan of lectures upon ... physick, chemistry, therapeutics and the materia medica, now read at Guy's Hospital.) ([London] 1780); Observations on the superior efficacy of the red Peruvian bark, in the cure of agues and other fevers. Interspersed with occasional remarks on the treatment of other diseases, by the same remedy (printed for J Johnson and J Murray, London, 1782); A Treatise on the structure, economy and diseases of the Liver; together with an enquiry into the properties ... of the bile and biliary concretions: being the substance of the Gulstonian Lectures ..1792 (London, 1793); Oratio ex Harveii instituto habita in theatro Collegii Regalis Medicorum Londinensis, Octob. 19, 1796 (London, 1797); A treatise on the chemical history and medical powers of some of the most celebrated mineral waters; with practical remarks on the aqueous regimen. To which are added, observations on the use of cold and warm bathing (London: William Phillips, 1800); Observations on the Hepatitis of India, and on the prevalent use of mercury in the diseases of this country (London, 1809).

Presented to St Thomas Hospital Medical School Library by George C Peachy in 1903.

Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002

Papers of William Savory comprising notes on Henry Cline's lectures on anatomy and surgery, 1789 (missing the lectures on surgery), and including a few notes from the clinical lectures of John Rutherford;
also notes on William Saunders' lectures on the theory and practice of physic, 1788,

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archives and Corporate Records Services.
English

Detailed catalogue

Cline's Lecture notes, 1788-1805 (reference: MSS 1672-83), and Saunders' Lecture notes c1785, (reference: MSS 4371-72), held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; Cline's lecture notes are also held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and Birmingham University Special Collections Department (reference: 1958/iii/30-32).

Previous reference: M31, M122
Sources: Dictionary of National Biography CD-ROM (Oxford University Press, 1995); Historical Manuscripts Commission's On-Line National Register of Archives; Catalogue of the Printed Books and Manuscripts in the Library of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School (1491-1900) D T Bird (London, 1984); British Library Public On-line catalogue; St Thomas's Hospital Gazette, May 1903.
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Transferred from St Thomas' Hospital Medical School Library in 2002

Papers of William Savory comprising notes on Henry Cline's lectures on anatomy and surgery, 1789 (missing the lectures on surgery), and including a few notes from the clinical lectures of John Rutherford;
also notes on William Saunders' lectures on the theory and practice of physic, 1788,

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archives and Corporate Records Services.

• English

• Latin

English

Detailed catalogue

Cline's Lecture notes, 1788-1805 (reference: MSS 1672-83), and Saunders' Lecture notes c1785, (reference: MSS 4371-72), held by the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine; Cline's lecture notes are also held by the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and Birmingham University Special Collections Department (reference: 1958/iii/30-32).

Previous reference: M31, M122

Previous reference: M31, M122

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