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Sambon, Louis Westenra (1865-1931)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7561, 8091-8092, 8308, 8529, 8850-8852

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Sambon, Louis Westenra (1865-1931)

Date(s): 1893-1923

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 9 items

Name of creator(s): Sambon | Louis Westenra | 1865-1931 | Italian tropical medicine specialist and medical historian

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sambon was intermittently employed by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum from 1903 onwards. He organised the 11th International Congress of Medicine (Rome, 1894).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Personal correspondence and papers of Louis Westenra Sambon, 1893-1923. These reflect his interest in the history of medicine and diseases caused by blood-borne parasites.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English, partly French and Italian

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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.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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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
Entomology | Zoology
Greek world | Western world | Civilization | Culture
History of medicine | History
Insects | Animals | Zoology
Malaria | Infectious diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Plastic surgery | Surgery | Medical sciences
Romans | Classical civilizations | Ancient civilizations | Ancient history | Historical periods
Trypanosomiasis | Tropical diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Arthropods

Personal names
Sambon | Louis Westenra | 1865-1931 | Italian tropical medicine specialist and medical historian

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