English Medical Student, Paris, early 19th century

Manuscript diary kept by an anonymous English medical student in Paris, 1st November 1834 - 20 June 1835. Institutions visited include the Hospitals of La Pitié, La Charité, Hôtel Dieu, Hopital du Midi and the Venereal Hospital; persons mentioned include Jean-Louis-Marie Alibert, Gabriel Andral, Gilbert Breschet, Auguste François Chomel, Jacques Lisfranc, Louis Joseph Sanson and Alfred Armand Louis Marie Velpeau.

early 19th Century

80 ff. (text ends on f. 74r, remainder blank) 1 vol., board covers.

Purchased from Mr Peter Metcalfe, 1996.

The student has a Bristol background (he is visited by Dr J. Bernard of Clifton) and is probably James Surrage (fl. 1834-1886), who took his MD at Edinburgh in 1835 with a thesis on puerperal fever.

Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.