GB 0120 MSS.4825-4827 - Tournefort, Joseph Pitton de (1656-1708); Chirac, Pierre (1650-1732); and others

3 volumes

GB 0120 MSS.4825-4827 [1725-1730] Collection (fonds) 3 volumes Tournefort , Joseph Pitton , de , 1656-1708 , French botanist and physician

Chirac , Pierre , 1650-1732 , French physician

Pierre Chirac was the most celebrated physician of his day; he obtained his MD at Montpellier in 1683, and by 1687 was Professor of Medicine. He was elected a Member of the Académie des Sciences in 1716, became head of the Jardin du Roi in 1718, and Physician to Louis XV in 1731.

Purchased 1911; 1916; and at Sotheby's 30/7/1941, Lot 368.

Notes on medical plants, [1725-1730].

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.

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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).

In the Wellcome Library: More material by Chriac is held as MSS.1595-1614 & 7600.

Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

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.

Jan 2009 Tournefort , Joseph Pitton , de , 1656-1708 , French botanist and physician Anatomy Biology Respiratory system Larynx Glottis Literature Literary forms and genres Recipes Pathology Toxicology Systems of medicine Traditional medicine Botany Vegetation Flora Plants Plants, medicinal Pharmacology Medicine, herbal Chirac , Pierre , 1650-1732 , French physician France Western Europe Europe

Purchased 1911; 1916; and at Sotheby's 30/7/1941, Lot 368.

Notes on medical plants, [1725-1730].

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.

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Latin

In the Wellcome Library: More material by Chriac is held as MSS.1595-1614 & 7600.

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).

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.

• anglais