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upon its completion. The first volume covered the foundation of the College to 1600 (completed March 1855), the second covered 1601 to 1700 (completed December 1855), and the third volume 1701-1800 (completed in June 1856). The Council of the College, at the instigation of some influential Fellows,
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in three large volumes, containing biographical information on all physicians who were connected with the College, with no thought to publication. Each volume of the manuscript was presented to the College
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Subsequent editions, for biographies post 1825, were limited to fellows, which reflects the increasing numbers, qualifications and professionalism of physicians through the 19th century. They were titled
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from 1518 to 1800. In 1878, volume three was included in the second edition, overseen by Munk, with biographies to 1825. The work was set out in
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It has become an invaluable biographical resource for those interested in medical and
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expressed the view in December 1860 that the work be published, and it was, in 1861.
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series, which is regularly updated with new biographies of deceased fellows.
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The first edition consisted of volumes one and two, containing fellows and
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Munk's Roll was initially the work of the College's Harveian Librarian,
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Series of biographies of fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
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Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London
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Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London
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Volume 7, 1976–1983, published 1984 (ed. Gordon Wolstenholme)
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The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians at London
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The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London
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Index

biographical
Royal College of Physicians
online
William Munk
published edition
manuscript
library
licentiates
chronological order
Gordon Wolstenholme
social history
Inspiring Physicians
"Inspiring Physicians, Indexes"
"Making Munk's Roll: writing the lives of the RCP fellows"
Munk, William
"Preface to the first edition"
"RCP Heritage : Lives of the fellow"
"AIM25 collection description"


"Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians (Munk's Roll)"
doi
10.1017/s0025727300043805
PMC
1139487
"Volume XII (2005 onwards)"
Inspiring Physicians
history of medicine website
Categories
Royal College of Physicians

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