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Fournier, Nicolas ( d 1782)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2425-2432

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Fournier, Nicolas ( d 1782)

Date(s): 1744-1752

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 8 volumes

Name of creator(s): Fournier | Nicolas | d 1782 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The author obtained his M.D. at Montpellier, and later became physician to the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris. He was towards the end of his career Inspecteur des Eaux minérales de France.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Student notes taken from Nicolas Fournier's teaching on materia medica, 1744-1752.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

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.

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

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1936.

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: Feb 2009


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Medicine, traditional | Culture
Recipes | Literary forms and genres | Literature
Pharmacology

Personal names
Fournier | Nicolas | d 1782 | physician

Corporate names

Places
France | Western Europe | Europe