IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.1289-1290
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Boivin, Marie Anne Victoire Gillain (1776-1841)
Date(s): 1811-1839
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Boivin | Marie Anne Victoire Gillain | 1776-1841 | French midwife
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Marie Anne Victoire Gillain Boivin (1776-1841) worked at the Hospice de la Maternité in Paris and published the Atlas des maladies de l'utérus, Paris, 1833.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers of Marie Anne Victoire Gillain Boivin including album of plates illustrating the morbid pathology of the uterus, and volume of notes on obstetrics and gynaecology, 1811-1839.
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).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1930.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009