Catalogue description León, Nicolás (1859-1929)

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Details of WMS/Amer.1 and 118
Reference: WMS/Amer.1 and 118
Title: León, Nicolás (1859-1929)
Description:

The collection comprises material on medical history: notes on scatological remedies and biographical notes on Dr. Miguel Francisco Jiménez (1813-1876).
Date: c.1915-c.1916
Arrangement:

WMS/Amer.1 comprises notes on scatological remedies and WMS/Amer.118 comprises biographical notes on Dr. Miguel Francisco Jiménez (1813-1876).
Held by: Wellcome Collection, not available at The National Archives
Language: English, Spanish
Creator:

León, Nicolás, 1859-1929, medical historian
Physical description: 1 volume and 1 file
Physical condition: holograph; bound and loose papers.
Immediate source of acquisition:

WMS/Amer.118 purchased 1927; WMS/Amer.1 purchased 1962.
Custodial history:

WMS/Amer.1 formed part of the Guerra Collection; WMS/Amer.118 formed part of the León Collection.
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).
Subjects:
  • Medical treatment
  • Biographies
Unpublished finding aids: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).
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