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Desgenettes, Rene Nicolas Dufriche (1762-1837), Baron Desgenettes


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.7034-7035

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Desgenettes, Rene Nicolas Dufriche (1762-1837), Baron Desgenettes

Date(s): 1793-1813

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 files

Name of creator(s): Desgenettes | Rene Nicolas Dufriche | 1762-1837 | Baron Desgenettes | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters and papers of René Desgenettes, 1793-1813, mainly official orders relating to medical services in the French army in Egypt, of which he was physician in chief. With a few letters from Desgenettes to his wife. The letters and papers concerning the Egyptian campaign complement Desgenettes' own published account, Histoire médicale de l'Armée d'Orient (Paris, 1802), which was largely compiled from copies of his out-letters.

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 typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Most of the letters and papers were purchased in France in 1931-1932, from R. Bonnet of Viroflay and from Charavay and Degrange of Paris. The provenance of the remainder is unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

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
Military hygiene | Hygiene | Health
Military medicine | Medical sciences

Personal names
Desgenettes | Rene Nicolas Dufriche | 1762-1837 | Baron Desgenettes | physician

Corporate names

Places
Egypt | North Africa