Autograph letter signed to unknown recipient.
Published by 1873., London, October 27,, 1873
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1 page. Folded. Fine. "Dear Sir,/ You quite welcome/ to make use of my home,/ if it will be of the best [?]/ all [?] to Kings College Hos-/ pital—Behind me./ Yours very truly/ Wm. O. Priestley." / The letter is written on Priestley's letterhead bearing his address of 17 Hertford St., Mayfair [London]. / Sir William Overend Priestley was a British physician and great nephew of Joseph Priestley. He was educated at King's College and Edinburgh University, becoming a Senate Gold Medalist upon his graduation from Edinburgh. He was a professor of obstetrics at King's College in London, working at King's College Hospital, a position he held from 1862 to 1872. In 1865, Priestley "was appointed Physician-Accoucheur to the Princess of Hesse, and to the members of the Orleans family resident in England" (Smith, p. 121). Priestley was knighted in 1893 and became a conservative Member of Parliament for the universities of Edinburgh and St. Andrews in 1896 — See: "David Murray Marshall Hall . . ."). He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (Medical Directory for 1872, p. 198). Priestley is the author of "numerous papers on natural history and medicine" (Smith, p. 121). / The case notes (1870-74) of Priestley and Dr. William Smoult Playfair are held in the King's College Hospital and "describe medical disorders and procedures such as renal disease, pneumonia, rickets, bronchitis, croup, cyanosis, convulsions, diarrhoea, chorea, febricula (fever), essential paralysis, pleurisy, typhoid fever, and congenital heart defect. Case notes give patient name, address, admission date, and ward." (KH/CN3/3 1870, Jun-1874, Jul.). REFERENCES: "David Murray Marshall Hall's Ancestors and Their Descendants" [available on-line]; Kings College Hospital Archives. KH/CN3/3 June 1870 — July 1874; The Medical Directory for 1872 and the General Medical Register. London: J. and A. Churchill, 1872; Smith, William. The History and Antiquities of Morley. London: Longmans, Green, 1876. …
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- Autograph letter signed to unknown recipient.
- Author
- PRIESTLEY, William Overend (1829-1900).
- Publisher
- 1873., London, October 27,
- Publication year
- 1873
Jeff Weber Rare Books
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Jeff Weber Rare Books, established in 1986, relocated from California to Montreux, Switzerland in 2020. I specialize in the history of science, history of medicine, early printed books, fine printing, bibliography, Persia, fore-edge painting, scholarly books. I buy collections and do regular appraisal work.
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