IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 WMS/Amer.2 and 13
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Virtudes del Balsamo Peruano
Date(s): late 18th century
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 2 volumes
Name of creator(s): Anonymous
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
These manuscripts comprise two copies of a work on the theory and extensive therapeutic uses of Peruvian balsam, probably produced in Mexico in the second half of the 18th century.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: Spanish
System of arrangement:
WMS/Amer.13 is a copy of WMS/Amer.2.
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 volumes
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.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
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Archival history:
The items in this collection formed part of the Guerra Collection.
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1962.
ALLIED MATERIALS
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by Robin Price.
Date(s) of descriptions: December 2000.