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Memoirs on Paris hospitals / by Jacques Tenon ; edited and with an introduction, notes, and appendices by Dora B. Weiner.
- Title
- Memoirs on Paris hospitals / by Jacques Tenon ; edited and with an introduction, notes, and appendices by Dora B. Weiner.
- Author
- Tenon, Jacques, 1724-1816.
- Publication
- Canton, MA : Science History Publications, USA, [1996], ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RA989.F74 P3732813 1996 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Weiner, Dora B.
- Description
- xxxiii, 405 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Resources in medical history, 1044-9477
- Uniform Title
- Mémoires sur les hôpitaux de Paris. English
- Resources in medical history.
- Alternative Title
- Mémoires sur les hôpitaux de Paris.
- Subjects
- Note
- Translation of: Mémoires sur les hôpitaux de Paris. 1788.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-398).
- Contents
- Ch. 1. The Paris Hotel-Dieu: fire and controversy -- Ch. 2. Jacques Tenon, 1724-1816: humane surgeon and persistent investigator -- Ch. 3. Five memoirs (1786-1788) and a new model -- First Memoir -- An enumeration of Paris hospitals -- Second Memoir -- A brief description of the principal Paris hospitals -- Third Memoir -- Area occupied by the Hotel-Dieu of Paris -- Fourth Memoir -- Description of the patients' building of the Hotel-Dieu of Paris -- Fifth Memoir -- Establishment of layout of the institutions to replace the Hotel-Dieu in Paris
- Extracts from the registers of -- The Royal Academy of Sciences, 5 September 1787 -- The Royal Society of Agriculture, 24 July 1788 -- The Royal Academy of Science, 30 July 1788 -- The Royal Academy of Surgery, 31 July 1788 -- Tenon Bibliography -- Biographic sketches of important persons mentioned in Tenon's Memoirs.
- ISBN
- 0881350745
- LCCN
- 91014970
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries