Level of Description: Fonds
Extent and Medium of the unit of description: 3.92 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Brown, William Herbert (1878-1959), dermatologist
Administrative/Biographical History
Herbert Brown was born in Govan, in Glasgow, on 28th March 1878. He was the son of Joseph Brown, master starch maker and Elizabeth Brown, née Hay. He qualified MB, ChB from the University of Glasgow in 1901, being awarded MD with honours in 1905. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps for the duration of the First World War, and during this time he acquired the material for the Atlas of the Primary and Cutaneous Lesions of Acquired Syphilis in the Male which was published with E.F. White in 1920. Following demobilisation in 1919, he was appointed as the first Consulting Physician for diseases of the skin at the Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow. He was a member of the British Association of Dermatologists from its inception and was President during 1940-1941. He was also a founder member of the North British (now Scottish) Dermatological Society. He was a keen amateur photographer and accumulated a large amount of clinical photographs, monoscopic and stereoscopic, and over a thousand glass plate negatives. The photographs were later arranged according to skin condition by Dr. L. Taylor, Dermatologist at the Victoria Infirmary who added further photographs to form a teaching collection.
Herbert Brown retired in 1945 and died in March 1959.
Scope and content
Glass negatives, c.1920-1940; photographs and stereoscopic prints, c. 1920-1970; typewritten volume on diseases of the skin, 1917.
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Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult.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.
Publication Note
C.S. Jury, T.W. Lucke and C.S. Munro, “The Clinical Photography of Herbert Brown: a perspective on early 20th century dermatology,” Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, 25, (2001), pp. 449-454.
Archivist's Note
Compiled by Charlotte Crooks, Archive Assistant, 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 2002; February 2004.