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Desault, Pierre Joseph (1744-1795)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.2103-2104

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Desault, Pierre Joseph (1744-1795)

Date(s): 1791

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 2 volumes

Name of creator(s): Desault | Pierre Joseph | 1744-1795 | surgeon

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Pierre Joseph Desault was surgeon in chief at the l'Hôtel-Dieu, Paris. He afterwards practised at Caen.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Traité d'opérations de Chirurgie. Rédigé d'après les Leçons de Mr. Desault, chirurgien en chef de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. Revu et corrigé par lui-même. Manuscrit par Victor Gueudeville, l'un de ses Élèves. Vol. I. Opérations de la tête, du col, et de la poitrine (436 pp.); II. Maladies des voyes urinaires, de la verge, des bourses, et de l'anus, aneurisme, amputation (375 pp.). Produced in Paris.

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:

2 vols. 4to. 24 x 181/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

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).

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1933.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.