Barailon, Jean François (1743-1816)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 MSS.1051-1053
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Barailon, Jean François (1743-1816)
Date(s)	: 1777-1813
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 3 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Barailon | Jean François | 1743-1816 | physician and magistrate
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Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The author was a physician and magistrate of Chambon, and was a member of the Convention in 1792. He was there distinguished by his moderate and sensible views. He voted against the death penalty for Louis XVI, and later engaged in educational reforms. He was a member of the Corps Législatif until 1806, and Procureur du Roi at Chambon in 1814. He is also known as an archaeologist of the Celtic and Roman antiquities of France.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Journal de médecine, année 1777 [à 1789]. Author's holograph manuscripts, chiefly mainly case-books, with full details of the writer's patients and their illnesses. On the third un-numbered leaf of Volume I is an entry dated 19/7/1813 stating that on that date the compiler 'fut créé chevalier de l'Ordre Impérial de la Réunion'. Produced in Chambon.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
French

System of arrangement:

In 3 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.

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

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1927.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

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

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:
Aug 2008