Collected papers on medicine and medical history

Thirteen short works.

(1) BERNARD (Léon) [1872-1934]. Sur le nombre croissant des étrangers dans les Services médicaux, Paris, 1925 (6 ff. 4to. 23 x 18 cm.).

Author's holograph MS., written on the rectos only. He obtained his M.D. in Paris in 1900, and was later professor of histology at the Faculté de Médecine, and of tuberculosis at the Laennec Hospital in 1928.

Purchased 1928. (67374)

(2) BOYER (Jules Marie Jacques) [1869- ]. Les inventions destinées à accroître la portée de nos sens [Paris] 1898 (4 ff. 4to. 23½ x 17 cm.).

Author's holograph MS. written on the rectos only. He wrote a 'Histoire des mathématiques', published in Paris in 1900.

Purchased 1931. (64699G)

(3) DESGENETTES (René Nicolas Dufriche), Baron [1762-1837]. Short biography: in French [Paris, 1830] (7 pp. folio. 34½ x 22 cm.).

An anonymous contribution to the 'Biographie des Vivants': the date 1829 is found on p. 6.

Desgenettes who obtained his M.D. at Montpellier in 1789, joined the French Military Service in 1793 and was Inspector General in 1803.

Purchased 1936. (69292)

(4) DORIGNY (Claude). Copy of an Order by the Présidents Trésoriers de France for the payment of fees due to Dr. Dorigny from the estate of the late Antoine Olivier. Paris, 1777 (4 ll. folio. 26½ x 19 cm.).

On vellum, unbound.

The payment was for 29 visits and 26 consultations.

Purchased 1909. (21510)

(5) FOLWARCZNY (Carl) [1831-1875]. Bemerkungen zu dem in den Grenzboten.

Jahrgang 1847 II, pag. 549 bis 565 über dem Titel 'Spital-Memorien aus Wien' erschienenen Aufsatz. Vienna, 1847 (6 ll. folio. 39 x 25½ cm.).

Author's holograph MS.

After working in various hospitals in Vienna, he was appointed professor of physiological chemistry at the university, and in 1858 was professor at Graz.

Purchased 1931. (65892)

(6) FORREST (Thomas) [1729?-1802]. Proposal for a better mode of victualling the Navy in warm climates, applicable also to East India ships, London, 1789 (4 ll. folio. 39 x 25 cm.).

Unbound.

Author's holograph MS., dated 'Grafton Street, Fitzroy Chaple [sic] June 1st 1789'.

Below this is a holograph note by Sir Joseph Banks [1743-1820] dated 'Soho Square, June 5th, 1789' returning the 'Proposal' of which he approves in principle, but 'fears that the minute detail...will render the execution of them impracticable on the large scale necessary for the victualling of a Squadron'.

For Thomas Forrest, Navigator, cf. D.N.B.

Purchased 1930. (56414)

(7) GEYL (Arie) [1853-1914]. Het klinische orderings te Leiden: with other notes and extracts on the history of Dutch medicine [c. 1910] (9 ll. folio. 27 x 21½ cm.).

Unbound, written on the rectos only.

Author's holograph MS. He obtained his M.D. at Leiden in 1878, and later practised at Dordrecht: from 1901 onwards he was medical historian at Leiden University. [Cf. 'Janus', 1914, Vol. 19, p. 333]. (92000)

(8) GOURAUD (Vincent Olivier) [1772-1848]. Projet et Décret sur les hôpitaux militaires [1789] (6 ll. folio. 32 x 20½ cm.).

Unbound.

Author's holograph MS., signed: 'Gouraud Docteur en Médecine, ancien chirurgien major des Régiments d'Orléans et la Reine infanterie'.

The date given is suggested by the references in the text to the Assemblée Nationale.

Purchased 1929. (63700)

(9) LAMBERT (S. J.). Short biography of Dr. James Murie [1832-1925], Leigh-on-Sea, 1927 (2 ll. folio. 34 x 21 cm.).

James Murie obtained his M.D. at Glasgow in 1857 and served in the expedition to relieve Speke and Grant in Central Africa in 1861. He afterwards practised in London, where he was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and for ten years Librarian to the Linnaean Society.

He later returned to Leigh-on-Sea where he took up the study of fisheries.

The initials of Lambert are doubtfully transcribed as 'S.J.'

Presented 1927. (89184)

(10) PAULMIER (Louis Pierre) [1775-1847]. Deux lettres contenant l'art d'apprendre à parler aux sourds-muets [c. 1835] (6 ll. folio. 30½ x 20 cm.).

Author's holograph MS.

He succeeded the Abbé Sicard [1788-1822] as head of the Institut des Sourds-muets in Paris.

The MS. can be approximately dated by the foot-note on the verso of the fourth leaf: 'Mr'. Remusat est mort'. Jean Paul Remusat, an eminent French sinologist, died in 1832.

Purchased 1933. (66034)

(11) STIDD. A design for ye [sic] decent fitting up of ye [sic] ancient Preceptory of St. John of Jerusalem at Styd [sic]. [C. 1850] (4 ll. 4to. 25 x 20½ cm.).

On the title are two pen-drawn seals and three armorial shields: the text is followed by a two-page plan of the building.

The paper has a water-mark dated 1846.

Purchased 1935. (69117)

(12) THOURET (Michel Auguste) [1748-1810]. Rapport sur l'usage des nouveaux poids et mésures en médecine. Official copy signed by Thouret, Directeur de l'École de Médecine de Paris. Paris. (7 ll. folio. 31 x 20½ cm.).

Dated '21 Vendémiaire an dix' (13 Oct 1801), and with the stamp of the 'École de Santé Paris' on the recto of the first leaf. Thouret was also one of the founders of the Société et Comité Central de Vaccine'.

Purchased 1934. (67097)

(13) TOELTENYI (Stanislas von) [1795-1852]. Fragment containing the first 16 pages in proof of his 'Versuch einer Kritik der Wissenschaftliche Grundlage der Medicin'. With holograph corrections. [Vienna, 1838] (16 pp. 4to. 22½ x 17½ cm.).

The 'Versuch' was published in Vienna in 1838-1840, in four volumes.

The author was a Hungarian physician and poet: he was appointed professor of pathology, etc. in 1827 at the 'Josephinum' in Vienna.

From the Schneller Collection.

Purchased 1932. (66880Q)

• <persname>Bernard, Léon, 1872-1934, physician</persname>
• <persname>Boyer, Jules Marie Jacques, b 1869</persname>
• <persname>Desgenettes, René Nicolas Dufriche Baron Desgenettes, 1762-1837, physician, Inspector General of French Military Service</persname>
• <persname>Dorigny, Claude, fl 1777, physician</persname>
• <persname>Folwarczny, Carl, 1831-1875, physiologist</persname>
• <persname>Forrest, Thomas, c 1729-1802, navigator</persname>
• <persname>Geyl, Arie, 1853-1914, physician, medical historian</persname>
• <persname>Gourard, Vincent Olivier, 1772-1848, military surgeon</persname>
• <persname>Lambert, -, fl 1927</persname>
• <persname>Paulmier, Louis Pierre, 1775-1847, head of Institut des Sourds-Muets, Paris</persname>
• <persname>Thouret, Michel Auguste, 1748-1810, Director of the École de Médecine, Paris</persname>
• <persname>Toeltinyi, Stanislas, von, 1795-1852, physician, poet</persname>