Papers of John Heaviside
TitlePapers of John Heaviside
ReferenceMS0013
Level of descriptionfonds
Date1769-1838
Admin./ biographical historyJohn Heaviside was a Surgeon and an anatomical museum proprietor. Heaviside undertook a tutelage under the surgeon, Percivall Pott in London. From about 1770-1771, Heaviside was House Surgeon at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and qualified for the Diploma of the Company of Surgeons (later the Royal College of Surgeons of London in 1800) on 7 November 1771, and went on to become an Army Surgeon in the Grenadier Guards during that year.
Heaviside set up private practice in East Street, Red Lion Square, before moving to Oxford Street in 1777. In 1793, Heaviside acquired Henry Watson's anatomical collection and established his own museum. A large proportion of the specimens were from cases Watson had attended, and were accompanied by his own descriptions. In addition to medical cases, the collection housed comparative anatomical material, coins, minerals, and a series of plaster casts of famous (and infamous) faces. Heaviside published a museum catalogue in 1818.
For more information on Heaviside's life and career, please visit his profile in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-57471;jsessionid=35F3F45B562AB8AC947A6C3E33729778
Heaviside set up private practice in East Street, Red Lion Square, before moving to Oxford Street in 1777. In 1793, Heaviside acquired Henry Watson's anatomical collection and established his own museum. A large proportion of the specimens were from cases Watson had attended, and were accompanied by his own descriptions. In addition to medical cases, the collection housed comparative anatomical material, coins, minerals, and a series of plaster casts of famous (and infamous) faces. Heaviside published a museum catalogue in 1818.
For more information on Heaviside's life and career, please visit his profile in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-57471;jsessionid=35F3F45B562AB8AC947A6C3E33729778
Scope and ContentThis collection contains notes by Heaviside on the lectures of John Hunter, William Hunter and Percival Pott; catalogues of specimens held at the Heaviside museum; and manuscript case and post-mortem reports, papers and lecture index.
Extent4 boxes
LanguageEnglish
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Some notes of Heaviside's cases made by John Howship are contained in his notebook.
Some notes of Heaviside's cases made by John Howship are contained in his notebook.
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