O'Farrell, Thomas (1843-1917), military surgeon
- O'Farrell, Thomas, 1843-1917
- Date:
- 1873-1906
- Reference:
- MSS.3704-3708 & 6795-6800
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
The collection chiefly comprises scrapbooks compiled by O'Farrell on military and medical subjects. Specific topics that can be extracted include: cases at Jhansi and Hazaribagh military hospitals (MS.3704); medical officers and regiments serving in India (MS.3705); the volunteer Medical Association (MS.6795); the Sudan campaign, 1898 (MS.6796-6797); and Malta (MS.6799). In addition there are two printed items relating to O'Farrell (MS.6800).
Publication/Creation
1873-1906
Physical description
10 volumes and 1 file Holograph notes and printed cuttings, bound into volumes; two printed items grouped as MS.6800.
Contributors
Arrangement
Each block of manuscripts is held in very rough chronological order of composition. MSS.3704-3708 include material from the early part of O'Farrell's career, in the 1870s, and from the early 20th century; MSS.6795-6800 are focussed more upon the 1890s. Printed material about O'Farrell is grouped in the last manuscript, MS.6800.
Acquisition note
Presented by Dr. P.T. O'Farrell, 1968
Biographical note
Thomas O'Farrell was born in 1843. He served as a surgeon in the Army, chiefly in India (taking part in the Afghan War of 1878-1880), and was promoted Surgeon-General, Royal Army Medical Corps, in 1899. He died in 1917.
Related material
At Wellcome Collection:
Pamphlets by O'Farrell are included in the Parkes Pamphlet Collection (RAMC/464), volumes 5 and 76.
Finding aids
Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973) and subsequent typescript supplementary finding aids by Richard Aspin, Christopher Hilton, Keith Moore and Richard Palmer.
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Identifiers
Accession number
- 310910