IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2425-2432
Held at: Wellcome Library
Title: Fournier, Nicolas ( d 1782)
Date(s): 1744-1752
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 8 volumes
Name of creator(s): Fournier | Nicolas | d 1782 | physician
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The author obtained his M.D. at Montpellier, and later became physician to the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris. He was towards the end of his career Inspecteur des Eaux minérales de France.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Student notes taken from Nicolas Fournier's teaching on materia medica, 1744-1752.
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: 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
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Purchased 1930, 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1936.
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: Feb 2009