Asbury, Jacob Vale (fl 1816-1870)
TitleAsbury, Jacob Vale (fl 1816-1870)
ReferenceMS0213
Level of descriptionfonds
Date1816-1842
Admin./ biographical historyJacob Vale Asbury was a Surgeon and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was also a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. He was surgeon at the Government Union School in Enfield, and at the North Division Metropolitan Police. He was the inventor of an instrument for puncturing the Membrana Tympani, and the inventor and patentee of the Esse in Tuto railway carriage. Asbury published "A treatise on epidemic cholera: illustrating a new theory of the disease, on which the principles of a systematic mode of treatment are established." London: Longman, 1833.
Scope and ContentManuscript volume of notes by Jacob Vale Asbury (signed by Asbury on page 6 of Fordyce lectures). The volume contains the following: Notes of the lectures of John Abernethy given at St Bartholomew's on July 25th 1816; Notes on "Oberservations on the Pulse, by Dr Fordyce", 18th September 1816; Notes on "Lectures on the Principle Operations of Surgery" by Sir Everard Home in 1812; Cases and Original Observations - the last dated 1842 and signed by Asbury. The majority of the rest of the volume contains blank pages, except three pages of tables giving statistics on the population of Enfield, and Great Britain, and on the final page some mathematical calculations on the cubic inches of water in a box.
Extent1 volume
LanguageEnglish
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