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Cirillus (or Cyrillus), Nicolaus (1671-1734)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1641-1654

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Cirillus (or Cyrillus), Nicolaus (1671-1734)

Date(s): 1699-1735

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 14 volumes

Name of creator(s): Cirillus | Nicolaus | 1671-1734 | physician x Cyrillus | Nicolaus

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Nicolaus Cirillus was a Neapolitan physician was a pupil of Tozzi whom he succeeded as Professor of Medicine and Philosophy at Naples University in 1705. In 1717 be became first Professor of Medicine, a post he retained until his death. In 1718 he was elected FRS He created a botanical garden at Naples, and was an advocate of simple remedies and the use of cold water.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes from lectures of Nicolaus Cirillus, 1699-1735.

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.

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 1908, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935.

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
Abortion, legal | Abortion, induced | Obstetric surgical procedures | Surgical procedures, operative | Surgery | Medical sciences
Abortion, spontaneous | Pregnancy complications | Diseases | Pathology
Erysipelas | Skin diseases, bacterial | Skin diseases, infectious | Skin diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Fermentation | Chemical processes
Fever | Diseases | Pathology
Head | Anatomy | Biology
Iron | Metals | Inorganic chemicals | Chemicals
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Obstetrics | Medical sciences
Philosophy, medical | Philosophy
Reproduction | Reproductive and urinary physiology | Physiology
Spiritualism | Mysticism
Stomach diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Therapeutic uses | Pharmacologic actions | Chemical actions and uses
Toxicology | Pathology
Astrology x Spiritualism
Palmistry x Spiritualism
Body temperature changes
Chemical elements
Female urogenital diseases and pregnancy complications

Personal names
Cirillus | Nicolaus | 1671-1734 | physician x Cyrillus | Nicolaus

Corporate names

Places