Crosse, John Green (1790-1850)

Midwifery. Obstetrical case books for 1819-1825 and 1833-1843. Compiler's holograph MSS. Produced in Norwich.

1819-1843

2 volumes 2 vols. 8vo. 201/2 x 13 cm. Original half-vellum bindings, not uniform.

Purchased 1970.

The author was surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital from 1826 to the time of his death. He had been elected F.R.S. in 1836, and was an original Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1843. A biography entitled 'A surgeon in the early 19th century' was published by his great-granddaughter, V. M. Crosse, in 1968.

Some of these cases are included in 'Cases in Midwifery', 1851, compiled by Edward Copeman [1809-1880].

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).