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León, Nicolás (1859-1929)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 WMS/Amer.1 and 118

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: León, Nicolás (1859-1929)

Date(s): c1915-c1916

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 volume and 1 file

Name of creator(s): León | Nicolás | 1859-1929 | medical historian

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The collection comprises material on medical history and notes on scatological remedies used in Mexico, and biographical notes on Dr. Miguel Francisco Jiménez (1813-1876).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: Spanish.

System of arrangement:

WMS/Amer.1 comprises notes on scatological remedies and WMS/Amer.118 comprises biographical notes on Dr. Miguel Francisco Jiménez (1813-1876).

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:

holograph; bound and loose papers.

Finding aids:

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983). Detailed catalogue available at http://www.a2a.pro.gov.uk.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

WMS/Amer.1 formed part of the Guerra Collection; WMS/Amer.118 formed part of the León Collection.

Immediate source of acquisition:

WMS/Amer.118 purchased 1927; WMS/Amer.1 purchased 1962.

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Publication note:

WMS/Amer.1 was published posthumously as Scatológica mexicana : materias excrementicias y secretoriales animales usadas por las mexicanos precolombinos y actuales (Mexico: Vargas Rea, 1946).

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: description compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by Robin Price.