GB 0120 WMS/Amer.1 and 118 - León, Nicolás (1859-1929)

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Reference code

GB 0120 WMS/Amer.1 and 118

Title

León, Nicolás (1859-1929)

Date(s)

  • c1915-c1916 (Creation)

Level of description

Extent and medium

1 volume and 1 file

Context area

Name of creator

Archival history

WMS/Amer.1 formed part of the Guerra Collection; WMS/Amer.118 formed part of the León Collection.
GB 0120 WMS/Amer.1 and 118 c1915-c1916 Collection (fonds) 1 volume and 1 file León , Nicolás , 1859-1929 , medical historian

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

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

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).

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

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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.
Spanish.
holograph; bound and loose papers.

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.

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 compiled by Christopher Hilton based upon those in the Library's published finding aid by Robin Price. 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. December 2000 Biographies Chemicals Fertilizers History History of medicine Jiménez , Miguel Francisco , 1813-1876 , physician León , Nicolás , 1859-1929 , medical historian x Leon , Nicolas Literary forms and genres Literature Materials Medical personnel Medical profession Medical sciences Medical treatment Mexico North America Palaeontology Personnel Physicians Phytochemicals Prose Scatology Surgery Systems of medicine Therapy Traditional medicine People by occupation People

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

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

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Scope and content

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).

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

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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.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

Spanish.

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

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.

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Wellcome Library

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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.

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  • English

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