IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4920-4923, 6113-6116
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Verdeil, François (1747-1832)
Date(s): 1770-1820
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 88 items
Name of creator(s): Verdeil | François | 1747-1832 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Verdeil was an eminent Swiss physician and scientist who practised at Lausanne. He began to practise in 1770 (see MS.4921) and rose to become President of the Bureau de Santé for the city and Vice-President of the Collège de Médecine at Lausanne from 1797. In the latter he succeeded Samuel Auguste André David Tissot (1728-1797). In 1799 he became head of the Swiss Army Medical Services.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Personal papers of François Verdeil, including correspondence and Clinical Case books, 1787-1820. In addition to the case books, the correspondence mainly relate to his treatment of patients, with some letters relating to the treatment of his wife. There are also some administrative papers concerning the establishment of a Collège de Médecine at Lausanne.
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Language/scripts of material: French, partly German and Latin
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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.
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In the Wellcome Library: Letters relating to Samuel Auguste André David Tissot (1728-1797), who preceded Verdeil as Vice-President of the Collège de Médecine at Lausanne, can be found at MS.7750.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
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Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Jan 2009