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New Spain: official documentation


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 WMS/Amer.3, 51, 62, 64 and 96-97

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: New Spain: official documentation

Date(s): 1690-1839

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 volumes and 2 files

Name of creator(s): Depositor

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The papers in this collection comprise official documentation issued by the authorities in New Spain (specifically, in Mexico). They include the appointment of José Gracida y Bernal (1760?-1815) as one of the Protomedicatos who were in charge of medical matters in New Spain (WMS/Amer.96); three certificates issued by Protomedicatos giving individuals licence to practice medicine (WMS/Amer.51, 64 and 97); a copy of a notice suspending quarantine procedures in the city of Mexico during the fever epidemic of 1813 (WMS/Amer.3); and a order authorising payment to F.X. de Balmis (1753-1819) for work on indigenous plants in the treatment of syphilis (WMS/Amer.62).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Spanish.

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:

manuscript, bound and loose papers.

Finding aids:

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983). Detailed catalogue available at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

The items in this collection formed part of the Guerra Collection.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1962.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

The Wellcome Library holds WMS/Amer.100, also relating to José Gracida y Bernal.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by Robin Price.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: December 2000.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Colonial administration | Colonial countries | Political systems
Disease control | Health policy | Health
Epidemiology | Health policy | Health
Infectious diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Medical profession | Medical sciences
Medicinal plants | Plants | Flora | Vegetation | Botany
Public administration | Government
Surgery | Medical sciences
Syphilis | Diseases | Pathology
Typhoid | Diseases | Pathology
Materia medica x Pharmacology
Sexually transmitted diseases x Venereal diseases
Bacterial infections
Bacterial infections and mycoses
Spirochaetales infections
Treponemal infections

Personal names
Balmis | F X | de | 1753-1819 x de Balmis | F X
Bernal | José Gracida | y | ? 1760-1815 x y Bernal | José Gracida
Brizuela | Juan José de la Peña | y | d 1789
Brizuela | Juan | de | 1645-1722
Iturrigaray | José de | 1742-1815 | Spanish colonial administrator x de Iturrigaray | José
Jove | José Ignacio García | d 1823
Montaña | Luis | 1755-1820 x Montana | Luis
Perez | Pedro | c 1800 | [physician]
Salgado | Marcus Joseph | 1671-1740

Corporate names
New Spain | government
New Spain | Protomedicatos

Places
Mexico | North America
New Spain | Americas