RCGP Archives
Tracing Your Medical Ancestors
The RCGP archives only holds limited biographical
material about its own members [see MRCGP below for
further information] remember the College was only founded in
1952 so if the person you are researching was prior to that it is
unlikely that we will hold anything about him/her at all.
There are a number of useful printed sources to use when
looking for genealogical/biographical information about the medical
professional. N.B. These sources
are not held in the
RCGP library or archives but most of them are available at the
BMA Library,
Wellcome Library,
Guildhall
Library and other large reference and medical libraries. A
helpful work is Susan Bourne and Andrew H. Chicken's self published
book
Records of the Medical Professions - A Practical Guide for
the Family Historian available from the
The Society of Genealogists or from
the
Family Tree Magazine mail order
service.
- Directoriesuks
- Apprenticeship Records
- University Rolls
- Medical School
Publications
- Obituaries UK
- Medical
Colleges - Biographical Publications and Qualifications
- Overseas
Inofrmation
The annual
Medical Directory (1845 - date)
and the
Medical Register (1859 - date) should be
your starting point in researching your medical ancestor these
publications include names, addresses, qualifications, medical
school and some publications for each doctor. The
Medical
Register will have an entry for every doctor who is allowed to
practice in it, inclusion in the
Medical Directory is not
compulsory but it has more information about each person. Doctors’
deaths are usually deducible only from the year that they disappear
but some names will appear in an obituary section
.
Sometimes you can access the medical directories through
Google Books.
2. Apprenticeship Records
P. J. and R.V. Wallis, Eighteenth Century Medics
(subscriptions, licenses, apprenticeships) 2nd Edition
(Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Project for Historical Bibliography, 1988).
This index is largely to the information from subscription lists of
books published in the eighteenth century including medical
treatises and other works.
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3. University rolls
MB = Bachelor of Medicine,
BM = Bachelor of Medicine,
ChB= Bachelor of Surgery,
BS BChir = Bachelor of Surgery,
MD = Doctor of Medicine,
DM = Doctor of Medicine,
These are common first qualifications from medical
schools/universities. The Medical Directory has a full
list of qualifications and their abbreviations at the front of each
volume.
Details of the careers of those medical practitioners who were
university graduates can often be found in published university
membership listse.g. biographical registers are published of
members of Oxford University, c.1200-1886, and of Cambridge
University, 1261-1900; graduates of Glasgow University are listed
in A Roll of the Graduates of the University of Glasgow,
1727-1897 compiled by W. Innes Addison, Glasgow, 1898.
Universities might also have alumni publications which publish news
and obituaries of their graduates.
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4. Medical School publications
The
Medical Directory will tell you which
medical school the doctor attended, some of these schools have
their own journals which will include news and obituaries about
their alumni e.g. St Bartholomew's [Barts],
Guys Hospital
Gazette,
St George's Hospital
Gazette,
Oxford Medical School
Gazette, London Hospital Gazette, Magazine of the Royal
Free Hospital School of Medicine, Magazine of the London School of
Medicine for Women, University of Leeds Medical Journal, Manchester
University Medical School Gazette.
5. Obituaries
Obituaries are published in Royal College journals as well as
Medical School and University publications - it is also worth
checking:
General Medical Publications such as
The Lancet (from 1823) and the
BMJ British Medical Journal (from 1828), Medical
Times [later Medical Times & Gazette] (1839-1885), Glasgow
Medical Journal (from 1828) and the Edinburgh Medical Journal (from
1805)
Journals of Medical and Scientific Societies e.g.
Linnean Society, Medical Society of London, New Sydenham Society,
Hunterian Society, The Royal Society, Royal Society of Medicine
[Previously Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society of London];
Northumberland and Durham Medical Society, Royal Medical Society,
Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, Leeds & West Riding
Medico-Chirurgical Society; Manchester Literary & Philosophical
Society, Manchester Medical Society, Philosophical Society of
Glasgow, Royal Medical & Chirurgical Society of Glasgow, West
London Medico-Chirurgical Society, West Kent Medico-Chirurgical
Society, Cardiff Medical Society, Cambridge Medical Society,
Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Westminster
Medical Society.
The British Library will be able to tell
you where these journals are held.
General Publications such as the 18th Century Journal
T
he Gentleman's Magazine, "
The Dictionary of National
Biography" and the "
The Times" also sometimes publish
medical obituaries.
The Wellcome library has an
index to obituaries published in
The Gentleman's Magazine
in its biography room.
Local Newspapers- the
Medical Directory will
give a good indication of the area in which the doctor lived and
local newspapers and archives may have some useful sources see
ARCHON for details
of your local record office.
The Wellcome
Library is currently digitalising back-runs of many major
medical journals which will make them easily accessible and
searchable online.
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6. Royal Medical
Colleges - Biographical Publications
The Medical Directory and/or Medical
Register will tell you the qualification and memberships
held of any given doctor - there are a too many to list here as
apart from Associateship, Licentiateship, Membership and Fellowship
of the medical Royal Colleges many of them also examine and award
specialist diplomas e.g. DDM = Diploma in Dermatological Medicine,
DPH = Diploma in Public Health.
Whilst most of the medical Royal Colleges will not hold much
information about their ordinary members or licentiates there is a
tradition of publishing biographies of of some of the Royal
Colleges after their deaths.
Physicians
The term 'physician' traditionally described a person who
diagnosed internal disorders, as opposed to one who performed
surgery or dispensed medicines. However, some physicians,
particularly in the 19th century, also worked in other areas of
medical practice. Not all doctors who called themselves `physician'
belonged to one of the Colleges of Physicians. The Hospital Records
database may be a useful resource for hospital based physicians
[and surgeons].
Biographies of physicians who were fellows of the
Royal College of Physicians of London 1518-1825
can be found in
W. Munk,
Roll of the Royal
College of Physicians, Vols 1-3 1518-1825 [all members and
licentiates]; Vols. 4-10 (entitled
Munk's Roll and covering
Fellows only 1826-1997. The
index to the
entire Munk's roll is available online with full text of deaths
post 1997.Later entries are available from the Royal College of
Physicians of London
Physicians in London and the vicinity 1529-c.1767 can
sometimes be traced in ecclesiastical licensing records which can
be found in local record offices and at the
Guildhall
Library.
John Baach
- A Directory of English
County Physicians 1603-1643. 1962 is based upon ecclesiastical
Records.
LRCP/MRCS = Licentiate of the
Royal College of Physicians of London; Member of Royal
College of Surgeons of London.
FRCPE =
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
MRCP [UK] =
Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom.
The Royal College of Physicians of
Edinburgh was founded by a charter in 1681, this set down
regulations for the license to practise, required University
graduates to be licensed without examination or fee, and did not
allow the creation of a medical school. Later, there were
modifications and a supplementary Charter in 1920 allowed women to
be admitted to the diplomas. From the beginning the College was
given powers to examine drugs and medicines and to reject those
that were below standard.
Eventually, agreement with the Royal College of Surgeons of
Edinburgh led to a joint diploma in 1859 and with the collaboration
of the Royal Faculty (now Royal College) of Physicians and Surgeons
of Glasgow this became the triple diploma in 1884
see below. this
examination still continues.
`Membership` was introduced in 1860 as an intermediate
stage between Licentiate and Fellow and was followed by expansion
of postgraduate training. In 1945 the Edinburgh Postgraduate Board
for Medicine was formed. Until 1971 the Membership examination
included both general medicine a nd a special subject. The choice
of special subjects was wide and included laboratory sciences as
well as clinical specialties. Under an agreement with the Colleges
in London and Glasgow to hold a joint examination (MRCP
UK) the special subject was dropped.
For obituaries see The Journal of the Royal College
of Physicians of Edinburgh [Previously called Proceedings
of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Surgeons
The term 'surgeon' traditionally described a person who
performed operations with the use of surgical instruments. However
some surgeons, particularly in the 19th century, also worked in
other areas of medical practice.
FRCS [Eng] = Fellow of
the Royal College of Surgeons of England
For biographical information about surgeons, whether in London
or elsewhere, who belonged to the Company of Surgeons, 1745-1800,
or the Royal College of Surgeons (of England) 1800- see
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of
Surgeons, 7 vols. covering the years 1844-1996. For later
obituaries see Annals of the Royal College of
Surgeons.
LRCP/MRCS = Licentiate of the
Royal College of Physicians, Member of the Royal College of
Surgeons
FRCS
[Ed] = Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of
Edinburgh
The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh was
granted its “Seal of Cause” by Edinburgh Town Council on 1st July
1505. This was ratified in the following year by King James
IV of Scotland. It is to this charter that the College traces
its origins as the oldest medical incorporation in the world.
Surgeons' Lives; a compendium of illustrated
biographies of notable Fellows spanning the College's 500-year
history, from the 16th century to the present day. [to be published
2005].
See also The Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of
Edinburgh obituaries section.
FRCPSG = Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
Lic.R.Coll.Phys.Edn.= Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of
Edinburgh
Lic.Fac.Phys.Surg.Glasg.
=Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of
Glasgow
The Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Glasgow was founded in 1599 was from the end of the
17th Century known as the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of
Glasgow. This title remained until 1909 when the Faculty was
allowed to add the prefix 'Royal' to its name, and in 1962 a
further change resulted in its present title of Royal College of
Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Licentiate The grade of "licentiate" was
instituted in 1785 to allow the admission of country practitioners.
Details about such licentiates may be gained from the Register of
Single Licentiates, 1815-1959 in the College Archive.
The Double and Triple Qualifications- During
the latter part of the nineteenth century the Scottish medical
colleges began to offer joint medical and surgical qualifications.
The Double Qualification in Medicine and Surgery was established
between the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1859. Recipients were
listed in the Medical Register as having the letters
"Lic.R.Coll.Phys.Edn., Lic.Fac.Phys.Surg.Glasg."
The Triple Qualification came into being in
1884 and was offered by the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh,
the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and the Faculty of
Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. It resulted in extremely long
letters after the qualifying person's name.
In the Medical Register for 1891, for example, Robert Brooks
Popham, is listed as "Lic.R.Coll.Phys.Edin, 1886.
Lic.R.Coll.Surg,Edin, 1886. Lic.Fac.Phys.S urg.Glasg., 1886.
See "Alexander Duncan, Memorials of the Faculty of
Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow", 1599-1850, Maclehose and
Sons, Glasgow, 1896
Johanna Geyer-Kordesch and Fiona Macdonald, Physicians and
Surgeons in Glasgow, The History of the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Glasgow, 1599-1858, Hambledon Press,
1999
Andrew Hull and Johanna Geyer-Kordesch, The Shaping of the
Medical Profession, The History of the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons o f Glasgow, 1858-1999, Hambledon Press,
1999
James J. Beaton, Roy Miller and Iain T. Boyle (eds), Treasures
of the College, Carnyx Group, Glasgow, 1998
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
FRCOG
=Fellow of the Royal College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
This College was founded in 1929. See "The lives of the
fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
:1929-1969" compiled by Sir John Peel Heinemann Medical Books,
1976.
Later obituaries are published in the RCOG News
(formerly President's Newsletter). These would only tend to be of
the really "important" Fellows and Members. The British Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology used to carry them but not any more.
Other than that, the deaths of all Fellows get reported to Council
and therefore are noted in the minutes - contact the archivist for
further details.
Apothecaries
LSA
=Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries LMSSA = Licentiate in Medicine, Surgery and
Midwifery of the Society of Apothecaries
The term 'apothecary' traditionally described a person who
dispensed medicines and who would now be called a chemist or a
druggist.
The Society of
Apothecaries was incorporated as a City Livery Company by royal
charter from James I on 6 December 1617 in recognition of
apothecaries' specialist skills in compounding and dispensing
medicines. In 1704 the Society won a key legal suit (known as the
Rose Case) against the Royal College of Physicians in the House of
Lords, which ruled that apothecaries could both prescribe and
dispense medicines. This led directly to the evolution of the
apothecary into today's general practitioner of medicine. From 1815
onwards most medical practitioners who were described as
apothecaries can be found in the licentiateship records of the
Society of Apothecaries, before that date many "apothecaries"
(particularly those outside London) belonged to no professional
body, and their activities may well be unrecorded. A list of all
apothecaries from 1715-1840 (on microfilm) has been published by
the
The Society of Genealogists
Psychiatrists
FRCPsych = Fellow of Royal
College of Psychiatriasts
The
Royal College of Psychiatrists is
the professional body for Psychiatrists in the British Isles. It
began in 1841 as the Association of Medical Officers of Asylums and
Hospitals for the Insane, was later known as the (Royal)
Medico-Psychological Association and changed its status to a
medical royal college with membership by examination in 1971.
Membership lists were printed in the Journal of Mental
Science from the 1850s to the 1960s; these are in the
College Library. Year Books from the 1930s to late 1969s listing
members are in the archives.
The
British Journal of Psychiatry [1962- previously
Journal of Mental Science (1855-1962) until recently
published obituaries of all important psychiatrists.
The Psychiatrist carries current
obituaries.
Doctors, General Practitioners
LRCP/MRCS = Licentiate of the
Royal College of Physicians, Member of the Royal College of
Surgeons
The term 'general practitioner' did not come into use until
the 1820s. Many, perhaps most, general practitioners obtained the
licentiateship of the Society of Apothecaries
LSA. Some, however, described
themselves as surgeons or (more rarely) physicians, and obtained
another qualification as well as, or instead of, the licentiateship
from 1880's the most common qualification for General Practitioners
was the "conjoint" LRCP/MRCS [Licentiate of the Royal College of
Physicians/Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England].
Neither of these Colleges hold much information about their
ordinary members or licentiates beyond that which is available in
the Medical Directory.
Details of the qualification(s) of medical practitioners from
1845 can be found in Medical Directories and Medical
Registers.
MRCGP
=Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners
FRCGP= Fellow
of the Royal College of General Practitioners
The College of General
Practitioners [later Royal College of General Practitioners]
was founded in
1952, however
members were not allowed to use the designation "MCGP" after their
names until 1965, although the editor of
The Medical
Directory agreed to note the membership in the practitioners
personal entry with the information relating to learned societies.
From 1967 entry for membership was by examination [there are other
routes to membership including assessment today] and its first
Fellows were appointed, a year after the College got it's Royal
designation. It was from this point that members in good
standing could use MRCGP or FRCGP after their names. The GMC agreed
in 1970 that these could be registrable qualifications.
Obituaries - some eminent general
practitioners have obituaries published in the BJGP [British
Journal of General Practice - formerly Journal of the (Royal)
College of General Practitioners]. It is worth checking the
BMJ obituaries section too. The RCGP archives has an "obituary
roll" which notes the death dates of all members up until 1979
together with extracts of published obituaries. When known all
deaths of members are reported at quarterly Council meetings. There
is also a small collection of published obituaries c.1955 to date,
mostly cuttings from the BMJ although obituaries/appreciations are
sometimes published in the BJGP and in Faculty Newsletters.
Recent Obituaries
of members are published on this website.
Some biographical information e.g. CV's are held on senior
members and Fellows of the College - access to this may be
restricted. For further information contact the
archivist.
Army and Navy Surgeons and Other Armed Forces Medical
Officers
Medical officers serving in the Army, 1660-1960, are listed in
A Peterkin, W Johnston and R Drew,
Commissioned officers in the
medical services of the British Army, 2 vols (1968), available
at
Guildhall
Library and many other reference libraries.
Prospective Navy surgeons had to be examined by, and receive
certificates from, the Barber-Surgeons' company or (from 1745) its
successor bodies - the Surgeons Company [later College of Surgeons
later Royal College of Surgeons]. Guildhall Library has records of
certificates issued 1705-45:
More detailed information about naval surgeons can be found in
the Admiralty records, 1660-19th century, at the
National Archives, Ruskin
Avenue, Kew, Surrey, TW9 4DU: these are described in Bruno
Pappalardo,
Tracing Your Naval Ancestors (PRO readers'
guide 24, 2002). Guildhall Library has a typescript index of naval
surgeons' certificates 1700-54, taken from Admiralty sources. From
1793 surgeons are listed in most of the annual volumes of the
Navy List, available at Guildhall Library and some other
reference libraries.
Details of medical officers in all branches of the armed
forces from 1845 can be found in Medical Directories: see
above
Overseas
Directories:
Irish Medical Directory 1843-1846; Medical
directory for Ireland.1852-1860 In the past,
particularly before the establishment of the Republic of Ireland,
doctors qualified and/or practising in Ireland were included in the
Medical Directory. It is still not uncommon for Irish doctors to
have spent some time training in the UK, there is now a separate
Irish Medical Directory, which includes obituaries
online.
Medical Royal Colleges
FRCPI = Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians of Ireland
FRCSI = Fellow of the Royal College of
Surgeons of Ireland
The
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland was
granted a Charter on 11th February 1784. In 1844 a supplemental
Charter was obtained from Queen Victoria. The chief provision of
this was the institution of the Fellowship which divided Graduates
into Licentiates and Fellows. The
Mercer Library holds the records of The Royal College of
Surgeons in Ireland their collection includes an index of the
Kirkpatrick Archive of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland -
a collection of newspaper cuttings and earlier material about Irish
Doctors up to 1954.
J B Lyons A pride of professors :the professors of
medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
1813-1985. RCSI 1999
J B Lyons Brief Lives of Irish Doctors 1978
C.A. Cameron History of the Royal College of Surgeons in
Ireland, and of the Irish Schools of Medicine. 1916
MICGP = Member of
Irish College of
General Practitioners .Until this College was founded in 1984
many Irish general practitioners belonged to the Royal
College of General Practitiones (see General Practitioners
RCGP).
Irish Medical Schools
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Canada
Canadian Medical Directory
Australia
Australian Medical Pioneers
Index a database of over 3,000 pioneer doctors, from the 1700s
through to 1875. It includes doctors who were registered or
qualified in Australia, were resident in Australia, or visited here
in a professional capacity, before 1875. Ships' surgeons, convict
doctors, general practitioners and medical specialists are
included. Until the first Australian medical graduates entered the
profession in the 1860s, all Australian doctors were educated and
obtained their qualifications overseas. In the early colonial
period, the vast majority of Australian doctors were emigrants from
the United Kingdom. When the gold rushes started, this trend
continued, although a few additional doctors emigrated from
America, New Zealand, India, and Europe. In the middle colonial
period, some doctors who were born here, or had immigrated as
children, went to study at medical schools in the United Kingdom,
returning to Australia to practice. In the later colonial period
most new doctors were Australians who were trained in Melbourne or
Sydney. A number of Australian doctors prior to 1948 will have done
some or all of their training in the UK and will be included in the
UK
Medical Directory in the overseas section.
Directory
Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1883-1900
Medical Directory of Australia 1948 - date https://www.mda.com.au/
Obituaries
The Medical Journal of Australia This was founded in 1914 as
an amalgamation of the Australasian Medical Gazette (published by
the NSW Branch of the British Medical Association since 1881) and
the Australian Medical Journal (published by the Victorian Branch
of the BMA since 1856). Obituaries published in recent issues are
available online and copies of earlier issues can be
ordered at
http://www.mja.com.au/.
Medical Schools
Medical Colleges
- FRACP= Fellow of the
Royal Australian College of Physicians
- The Royal
Australian College of Physicians was founded in 1938. It is a
professional organisation consisting of over 9,000 Fellows and
Trainees combined. Fellows are qualified physicians and
paediatricians who completed their training with the College. They
practise in all Australian States and Territories, New Zealand and
in many countries throughout the world. RACP News publishes
obituaries.
- FRACS = Fellow of the
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
- Founded in 1927 The Royal Australasian College of
Surgeons is an internationally recognised organisation for 5400
surgeons who are based mainly in Australia and New Zealand.
Approximately 90 per cent of all surgeons practising in Australia
and New Zealand are Fellows of the RACS (FRACS). It's publication
Surgical News includes obituaries.
- FRANZCP= Royal
Australian and New Zealand College of
Psychiatrists
- Rubinstein, WD and Hilary L Rubinstein, 1996. Menders of
the mind: A history of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College
of Psychiatrists 1946-1996. Melbourne: Oxford University
Press
- The history of the birth and development of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College
of Physicians as a specialist medical College and charts the
likely future of the College in relation to probable developments
in the nature and more than forty interviews with prominent College
members, conducted between 1993 and mid-1995.
- FRACGP= Royal
Australian College of General Practitioners
- http://www.racgp.org.au/
- FRACOG=Royal Australian College
of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
- The Australian College of
Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was formally established in
1978. The prefix 'Royal' was acquired in 1980 when it became the
Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
(RACOG). The College Archives contain the administrative records of
the College, and personal papers of Fellows and Members, which may
provide a further valuable resource for research.
-
New South Wales
- Medical registration began in NSW in 1838, and was extended to
the Port Phillip district in 1844. The medical register was an
official list of legally qualified medical practitioners (although
army and navy surgeons, who were not always qualified, could also
register). Initially registration was voluntary, but the
legislation was steadily tightened up, until unregistered medical
practice was effectively illegal. The later registers for Victoria,
due to new arrangements which came into force in 1862, always
listed doctors who had been registered before 1862 as having been
first registered in that year.
- The records of the New South Wales Medical
Board are widely available on microfilm in Australia
and qualifications will be given. Their list of registered Medical
Practitioners appears in the NSW Gazette from 1838. The catalogue
of The State Library of New South
Wales, Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000 AUSTRALIA,
shows they hold 1838-1942 under reference number MDQ 328.6/1.
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South Africa
Up until the 1960's many South African medical professionals
undertook all or some of their training in the United Kingdom and
information about them may be found in in UK Medical Directory and
other UK sources.
Directories
Register of Medical Practitioners, Interns and Dentists for
the Republic of South Africa [formerly Medical and Dental Register
for the Union of South Africa] 1924-1998
Journals
South African
Medical Journal published by the South African Medical
Association [previously Medical Journal of South Africa [1913-1926]
previously Transvaal Medical Journal 1905-1913] publishes
obituaries.
South African Medical Schools
Medical Practitioners
List of Medical
Practitioners licensed in the Cape Colony up to 31st March
1863
Index
of Medical Practitioners licenced in South Africa from
Ancestry24.com (Requires payment to read the actual entries.)
Colleges
FCMSA =Fellow of the
College of Medicine of South Africa
The Colleges of Medicine South
Africa formerly South African College of Medicine formerly
College of Physicians, Surgeons, Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
was founded in 1955. The College also incorporates the College of
General Practitioner of South Africa from 1970 which itself
was originally a Faculty of the Royal College of General
Practitioners 1958-1968]. The journal, Transactions of the
College of Physicians, Surgeons and Gynaecologists of South Africa
1957-1971, became
Transactions of the College of Medicine of South Africa from
1971-date.
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America
Directories
American Medical Directory 1906-1990 became
Directory of Physicians in the United States 1990-date
Medical register and directory of the United
States, systematically arranged by States : comprising
names, post office address, educational and professional status of
more than fifty thousand physicians ; with lists of medical
societies, colleges, hospitals ... with abstracts of medical laws
of each State, notices of mineral springs, etc. / by Samuel W.
Butler 1878
The Medical directory of the city of New York
published under the auspices of the Medical Society of the County
of New York. New York, 1886-1905
Medical directory of New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut 1889-1949
The medical and dental register-directory and
intelligencer of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware. George Keil,
editor. Published: Philadelphia, 1892.
Collected Medical Biographies
James Thacher, American Medical Biography 1828 reprinted New
York: Milford House,1967)
Stephen Williams, American Medical Biography, 1845 reprinted
New York: Milford House, 1967)
Samuel D. Gross, ed., The Lives of Eminent American Physicians
and Surgeons of the Nineteenth Century (1861)
Atkinson, William B. The Physicians And Surgeons Of The United
States. Philadelphia, Robson, 1878.
Stone, Richard F., editor. Biography Of Eminent American
Physicians And Surgeons. 2nd rev. and enl. ed. Indianapolis,
Hollenbeck, 1898. p. 857, (the first edition was briefer, published
in 1894)
Watson, Irving A., editor. Physicians And Surgeons Of
America...A Collection Of Biographical Sketches Of The Regular
Medical Profession. Concord, New Hampshire, Republican Press
Association, 1896.
Kelly, Howard A., and Walter L. Burrage. Dictionary Of
American Medical Biography; Lives Of Eminent Physicians Of The
United States And Canada, From The Earliest Times. New York,
Appleton, 1928. p. 1,364
Martin Kaufman, Stuart Galishoff, Todd L. Savitt, editors ;
Joseph Carvalho III, editorial associate. Dictionary of American
medical biography Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1984.
Medical Journals
Holloway, Lisabeth M., Ernest N. Feind, and George N.
Holloway. Medical Obituaries: American Physician's Biographical
Notices In Selected Medical Journals Before 1907. New York,
Garland, 1981. p. 513.
The New England Journal of Medicine (1812- date) published
obituaries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Colleges & Societies
From the 18th century until today medical societies have
been very popular in America many have published Transactions
and/or Journals, directories of members and so on - these may be
found in major medical libraries
(See
Medical Libraries on
the Web.) such as The College of Physicians of Philadelphia,
Yale University, Harvard University; The
New York Academy of
Medicine.National Societies
see Membership directory of national medical societies of
the United States. Philadelphia 1900
Physicians
MACP = Member of American
College of Physicians
American College of Physicians (1915-date) incorporates
American Society of Internal Medicine 1956-1998) (American
Board of Internal Medicine 1936-1956).
Directory American College of Physicians
1929- date
- American Medical Society ( est.c.1770-);
- America Philosophical Society ( from c.1789-date. see
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society );
- American Medical Association (est.1860);
General Practitions of Family Physicians
MAAFP = Member American
Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Family Physicians
see
Center for the History of
Family Medicine (CHFM), an arm of the AAFP was
officially established in 1992 to actively collect, organize,
preserve and provide access to the records of the leading family
medicine organizations involved in all aspects of the specialty. It
also solicits personal and professional papers of family
physicians and family medicine educators before and after 1969
when it officially became the 20th specialty in American
medicine
Dermatologists
- American Academy of Dermatology (est.1938);
Neurologists
Opthalmologists
- American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology (from
c.1909-);
- American Opthalomological Society see
NLM MS C 010 American Ophthalmological Society. Notebooks
relating to early history of the society, its membership and its
publications.1864-1939;
Orthopaedics
- American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons [AAOS] (est.
1933)
- American Orthopaedic Society (from 1877-);
- American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (est.
1972)
Paediatricians
- American Academy of Paediatrics (from 1842-); Publishes annual
Directory of Fellows
- Society for Research in Child Development (est.1935-);
Surgeons
Cardiologists
- American Heart Association (est. 1911);
- American College of Chest Physicians (1935-);
Clinicians
- American Clinical & Climatological Association (est.
1884);
- American Laryngological Association (1879- date) see
Transactions;
- American Otological Society (est.1868)
-
American Society for Clinical Investigation 1907-77
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology -
includes American Association of Immunologists, American
Association of Pathologists, American Institute of Nutrition;
American Physiological Society (est.1887), American Society for
Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and the American Society
of Biological Chemists.
- Interurban Clinical Club (1905-1976);
- American Society of Nephrology (est.1967);
Obstetricians & Gynecologists
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
(est.1950);
- American Gynaecological Society (est.1876- see Album of the
fellows of the American Gynaecological Society,
1876-1930);
Public Health
- American Public Health Association;
- National Tuberculosis Association (est. 1904);
Urologists
- American Urological Association (est. 1902)
Anesthetists
- The American Society of Anaesthesiologists [ASA] (est. 1905).
Its library The Wood
Library-Museum of Anesthesiology has been publishing a
continuing series of autobiographies of prominent leaders in
anesthesiology since 1997. Careers In
Anesthesiology is now in its 8th Volume, collecting more than
30 autobiographies. Each volume features autobiographies of
anaesthesiologists worldwide who are invited to write their own
stories with any focus on their own careers. Invited manuscripts
are being reviewed and edited to conform to the unique style of the
series by its Editors.
Apothecaries
- American College of Apothecaries (est. 1940);
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Local Societies
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia
This College was founded in 1787 "to advance the Science of
Medicine, and thereby lessen Human Misery, by investigating the
diseases and remedies which are peculiar to our country" and to
promote "order and uniformity in the practice of Physick." The
College publishes Transactions & Studies of the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia (1793; 1841-date). It also holds
the papers of many local medical societies.
- Arizona Medicine - Arizona State Medical
Society (1944-85);
- Medical Society for the District of Columbia
(est. 1817)
- Connecticut State Medical Society est1792 [see Proceedings.
Communications of the Medical Society of Connecticut 1810-];
- Fort Wayne Medical Society (est. 1953) see
Bulletin;
- Georgia Medical Association (1869-1972) see
published Transactions;
- Philadelphia County Medical Society (est.1849
);
- Pathological Society of Philadelphia 1857