GB 0120 SA/TSS - Travelling Surgical Society

2 boxes

GB 0120 SA/TSS 1925-1995 Collection (fonds) 2 boxes Travelling Surgical Society

The Travelling Surgical Society was founded in 1924 by twelve members keen to promote links with surgeons abroad to exchange ideas. Membership was set at 20. Annual visits lasting about a week were made, mostly abroad, but also to cities in Britain. A visit to Norway was planned for September 1939, but was cancelled due to the outbreak of war. Visits were not resumed again until 1949.

These papers were given to the Wellcome Library in August 1997 by Dr Alan Green, the Travelling Surgical Society's Assistant Archivist, on behalf of the Society.

Papers of the Travelling Surgical Society, 1924-1995, comprising minute books, 1944-1984; annual reports, 1925-1995; photographs, 1958; and records of visits to hospitals in Britain and Europe.

Arranged in sections as outlined in the Scope and Content.

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

Includes a photograph album.

Papers of the Medical Pilgrims (SA/PIL), a similar organisation to the Travelling Surgical Society, founded in 1928.

Other records of the Medical Pilgrims can be found in the papers of Donald Hunter (PP/HUN).

Similar material includes the travel diaries of Sir Robert Macintosh, Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics, describing his observations of anaesthetic practice worldwide 1937-1972 (PP/RRM).

Compiled by Anya Turner.

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.

June 2008 Travelling Surgical Society Anaesthesia Cultural policy Cultural cooperation Intellectual cooperation Hospitals Medical profession Medical personnel Physicians Travel Expeditions Health services Medical institutions Personnel Medical sciences Surgery People by occupation People

These papers were given to the Wellcome Library in August 1997 by Dr Alan Green, the Travelling Surgical Society's Assistant Archivist, on behalf of the Society.

Papers of the Travelling Surgical Society, 1924-1995, comprising minute books, 1944-1984; annual reports, 1925-1995; photographs, 1958; and records of visits to hospitals in Britain and Europe.

Arranged in sections as outlined in the Scope and Content.

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.

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English

Papers of the Medical Pilgrims (SA/PIL), a similar organisation to the Travelling Surgical Society, founded in 1928.

Other records of the Medical Pilgrims can be found in the papers of Donald Hunter (PP/HUN).

Similar material includes the travel diaries of Sir Robert Macintosh, Nuffield Professor of Anaesthetics, describing his observations of anaesthetic practice worldwide 1937-1972 (PP/RRM).

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