Professor Nathaniel Henry Alcock, MD, DSC

Correspondence relating to Professor Nathaniel Henry Alcock, MD, DSC, mostly regarding job appointments, including correspondence regarding Alcock's appointment as Demonstrator in the Physiological Laboratory of the University of London between 1902 and 1903; and his appointment as a lecturer in Physiology at St Mary's University in 1903. Also includes statement of duties for his position as Demonstrator, and related correspondence concerning these posts. Also includes correspondence regarding a small motor for giving choloform. (sic)

1902-1908

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Nathaniel Henry Alcock, MD, DSC, qualified in medicine in Dublin in 1896, and worked in Manchester, Dublin and with Hans Meyer at the University of Marburg before being appointed as Assistant Lecturer at the University Physiological Laboratory at South Kensington in December 1902. From 1902 to 1903, Alcock was employed as Demonstrator of Physiology in the Physiological Laboratory, University of London. In December 1903 he was appointed as Lecturer in Charge of Physiology at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in December 1903. He became Vice-Dean in 1905, and in 1908 secured for St Mary's the first grant by the Board of Education to a medical school. He was appointed to the Chair of Physiology at McGill University, Montreal, in 1911 and died in June 1913.

At Wellcome Collection:

GC/151/1 is a file of material relating to Alcock given by his son to the Physiological Society.