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Tommasini, Giacomo Antonio Domenico (1768-1846)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4814-4816

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Tommasini, Giacomo Antonio Domenico (1768-1846)

Date(s): [1805-1825]

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 volumes

Name of creator(s): Tommasini | Giacomo Antonio Domenico | 1768-1846 | Professor of Physiology and Pathology

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Tommasini was Professor of Physiology and Pathology at Parma University from 1794 to 1816 (see A. Cazzaniga, Le grande crisi della medicina italiana, 1951, Cap. 6).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Lecture notes on fever, on pathology, and on general medicine from the lectures of Giacomo Antonio Domenico Tommasini.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Latin

System of arrangement:

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:

Finding aids:

Described in: 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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1930 (acc.55350, 56435) and 1936 (acc.69486).

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

In the Wellcome Library: Five letters by Tommasini are held as MS.7752/4-8.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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
Clinical medicine | Medical sciences
Fever | Diseases | Pathology
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Body temperature changes

Personal names
Tommasini | Giacomo Antonio Domenico | 1768-1846 | Professor of Physiology and Pathology

Corporate names

Places
Parma | Italy | Western Europe | Europe