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Archambault, Jean Baptiste Henri Théophile (1806-1863)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0120 MSS.974-977

Held at: Wellcome Library

Title: Archambault, Jean Baptiste Henri Théophile (1806-1863)

Date(s): c 1850

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 4 volumes

Name of creator(s): Archambault | Jean Baptiste Henri Théophile | 1806-1863 | physician

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The author had been a pupil and friend of Esquirol, was appointed Physician to the Bicêtre Hospital in 1840, and was later Médecin en Chef at Charenton.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Bibliothèque de médecine mentale: a collection of extracts from the principal writers on mental diseases, ancient and modern: translated into French, [1850]. The work was undertaken under the direction of Dr. Archambault.

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:

Folio volumes, 301/2 x 20 cm. Original half-calf binding. Written by several hands, the translators are anonymous.

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:

Signature of 'Dasmesnet[?] 161 rue de Charonne' on the first fly-leaf of Vol. IV.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Purchased 1944.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Depressive disorder | Diseases | Pathology
Histrionic personality disorder | Personality disorders | Mental diseases | Psychopathology | Psychiatry

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