Level of Description: Fonds

Extent and Medium of the unit of description: 9 items

Name of creator(s): Davidson, Mr Samuel Lovell (1912-1999), paediatric surgeon

Administrative/Biographical History
Samuel Lovell Davidson was born in Spain in 1912 where his father, Norman, was medical officer to the Rio Tinto Mines. He graduated MB ChB in 1938 from Glasgow University and gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1944, becoming FRCS Glasg. in 1965. He was consultant paediatric surgeon at the Royal Hopital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow from 1948 until 1977 having previously worked at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and the Sick Children’s Hospital in Edinburgh. He had a long association with the Princess Louise Hospital, Erskine, having been a resident there and becoming a visiting surgeon to the hospital for 43 years until he was 72. He was diagnosed as having diabetes mellitus in 1919 and was the first diabetic in Scotland to receive insulin in 1923. He achieved the distinction of being the longest living diabetic patient.

Scope and content
Notes on medicine and surgery c.1940; articles on volvulus of the small intestine and surgery in the unborn child c.1940-1965; correspondence, 1946; Edinburgh University sermon by Stanley Alstead, 1961; obituary to Ivy Mackenzie, 1960; article by W.B. Primrose on the crucifixion of Christ, 1949.

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Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult.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.

Related units of description
Medical instruments in College museum collection.

Archivist's Note
Compiled by Carol Parry, Archivist, 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
August 2002