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Sédillot, Joseph (1738-1825), Sédillot, Jean (1757-1840) and Sédillot, Charles Emmanuel (1804-1883)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7617-7619

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Sédillot, Joseph (1738-1825), Sédillot, Jean (1757-1840) and Sédillot, Charles Emmanuel (1804-1883)

Date(s): 1790-1875

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 files (34 items)

Name of creator(s): Sédillot | Joseph | 1738-1825),
Sédillot | Jean | 1757-1840 | physician
Sédillot | Charles Emmanuel | 1804-1883 | surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Sédillot family from Clermont, Cantal, produced several medical figures in the course of a few generations. Jean Sédillot was founder and editor of the Journal of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy. Charles Sédillot was a military surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the Strasbourg faculty of medicine.

For further biographical information see Charles Henri Sunder, La vie et les oeuvres de Ch. Emmanuel Sedillot (1804-1883) (Strasbourg: Les Editions Universitaires de Strasbourg, 1933) and Alain Ségal, "Notice biographique sur Jean Sédillot Le Jeune (1757-1840)", in Histoire des sciences médicales T. 30, no. 4 (1996), pp. 495-500.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Charles, Joseph and Jean Sédillot, medics, 1790-1875.

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.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Described in Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

MS.7617 purchased from Charavay, Paris, January 1934 (acc.67097). MS.7618 purchased from: Charavay, Paris, October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), January 1934 (acc.67097) and at an unknown date before 1936 (acc.69220); and an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391). MS.7619 purchased from: an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Desgranges, Paris, July 1930 (acc.63453), February 1931 (acc.64689), January 1933 (acc.66034); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365); and Sotheby's, London, November 1933 (acc.67469); no.17 transferred to the Library from the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1964 as part of the French Collection of books and manuscripts (acc.311223), a note on its index card in the former Autograph Letters Sequence finding aid stating it to have been presented by Dr. Dourmestraux of Chartres, 1938. Formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

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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
Prescription drugs | Drugs | Pharmacology
Prescriptions | Documents | Information sources

Personal names
Sédillot | Charles Emmanuel | 1804-1883 | surgeon
Sédillot | Jean | 1757-1840 | physician

Corporate names

Places
France | Western Europe | Europe