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Johnston-Saint, Peter Johnston (1886- )


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.8259-8261

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Johnston-Saint, Peter Johnston (1886- )

Date(s): c 1927-1938

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 volumes

Name of creator(s): Saint | Peter Johnston | Johnston- | 1886-

CONTEXT

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CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Essays by Peter Johnston Johnston-Saint, c 1927-1938, including 'The Herbal. The fore-runner of the pharmacopoeia in ancient and modern times', 'Healing Saints. A brief account of some of the Healing Saints to be found in Brittany' and 'Historical View of the Theory of Spontaneous Generation'.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

As outlined in Scope and Content.

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Physical characteristics:

Typescript with holograph emendations.

Finding aids:

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Faith healing | Spiritual therapies | Complementary therapies | Therapeutics
Herbals | Guides | Books | Publications | Communications media | Information sciences
Medicine, herbal | Pharmacology
Pharmacopoeias | Documents | Information sources
Religion and medicine | Religion
Reproduction | Reproductive and urinary physiology | Physiology
Saints | Religious groups
Therapy | Medical sciences
Therapeutics x Therapy

Personal names
Saint | Peter Johnston | Johnston- | 1886-

Corporate names

Places
Brittany | France | Western Europe | Europe