Catalogue description Comrie, John Dixon (1875-1939)
This record is held by Wellcome Collection
Reference: | MSS.1776-1778 |
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Title: | Comrie, John Dixon (1875-1939) |
Description: |
The collection comprises material on medical history: an address to the Royal Medical Society on ancient medicine (MS. 1776), his inaugural lecture in the history of medicine (MS. 1777) and an address on ancient Hindu medicine (MS. 1778). |
Date: | 1899-1914 |
Arrangement: |
The material is held in chronological order of composition. |
Held by: | Wellcome Collection, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
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Physical description: | 3 files. |
Physical condition: | Holograph, typescript and printed material, unbound. |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
Presented by Mrs. J.D. Comrie, November 1939 (accession numbers 71384-71385). |
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Unpublished finding aids: |
Described in: S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973). |
Administrative / biographical background: |
John Dixon Comrie was born in 1875 and trained as a physician. He pursued a career as a physician and medical historian: in 1908 he became responsible for teaching Medical History at Edinburgh University, while from 1927 to his death in 1939 he was Physician to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. |
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