Level of Description: Fonds

Extent and Medium of the unit of description: 0.04 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Campbell, John (1792-1873), surgeon

Administrative/Biographical History
John Campbell became a Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1811 and a Fellow in 1863. He became a Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1816 and gained his Doctorate of Medicine (MD) in Glasgow in 1830. He became a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London in 1813. He practised as a surgeon in Largs, Ayrshire. He died on 14 May 1873 aged 81.

Scope and content
Letters to Dr Campbell including from Robert Cleghorn and Sir Charles Bell, 1816-1863; lecture notes from the lectures of John Abernethy of St Bartholomew’s Hospital and from Dr Gregory, Professor of Medicine at Edinburgh University, 1772-1813; miscellaneous documents including receipts for arsenic and prescriptions, 1812-1857.

Conditions governing access
Access to some items may be restricted. Please contact the Archivist at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Conditions governing reproduction
Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Archivist. We will try to assist in identifying copyright owners but the responsibility for copyright clearance before publication ultimately rests with the reader.

Language/scripts of material
English

Finding aids
Descriptive list available at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Archivist's Note
Compiled by Rachael Third, Scottish Archive Network Project, based on work undertaken by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

Rules or Conventions
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, International Council on Archives (2nd edition, 2000).

Date(s) of Descriptions
March 2000