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Bidault de Villiers, F. T. (1775-1824)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1164-1165

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Bidault de Villiers, F. T. (1775-1824)

Date(s): c 1800-1823

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume

Name of creator(s): de Villiers | F. T. | Bidault | 1775-1824 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The author was educated at the École Polytechnique in Paris, and obtained his M.D. in 1804 after having served in the armies of Napoleon as Medical Assistant. He is said to have practised in Galway, and certainly had some knowledge of English. He later settled in his native town of Saulieu (Côte d'Or) where he became Chief Physician, and was in charge of the hospital. He wrote many articles for medical journals as exemplified in this collection. A Recueil des oeuvres posthumes was published in Paris in 1828.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Two volumes of notes, on medical and chemical books, and on diseases and their treatment, c 1800-1823.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

As outlined in the Scope and Content

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:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1935.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry copied from Wellcome online catalogue by Sarah Drewery.