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Sisco, Giuseppe (1748-1830)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.4617-4620

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Sisco, Giuseppe (1748-1830)

Date(s): 1790-1834

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 volumes

Name of creator(s): Sisco | Giuseppe | 1748-1830 | Professor of Anatomy
Trasmondi | Antonio | 1771-1838 | lecturer

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

G. Sisco was the first Professor of Clinical Surgery and Forensic Medicine at Rome University, and was appointed in 1788 by Pope Pius VI: he had held the Chair of Anatomy from 1781.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Notes from Giuseppe Sisco's lectures on surgery including 'Lezzioni di chirurgia' with Antonio Trasmondi, 1834.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Italian

System of arrangement:

In four volumes.

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:

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1911, 1930, 1934

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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
Bloodletting | Medical treatment | Therapy | Medical sciences
Lectures (teaching method) | Teaching methods
Medical education | Higher science education
Surgery | Medical sciences
Wounds | Injuries | Pathology

Personal names
Sisco | Giuseppe | 1748-1830 | Professor of Anatomy

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