Mexico: Hospital de San Andrés

  • Hospital de San Andrés, Mexico City
Date:
1819-1840
Reference:
WMS/Amer.80 & 87
  • Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

About this work

Description

The collection comprises a detailed financial report on the state of the hospital, dated 1819 (WMS/Amer.80) and a prescription book for the women's section of a large hospital, dated 1840 and conjecturally assigned to the Hospital de San Andrés (WMS/Amer.87).

Publication/Creation

1819-1840

Physical description

1 file and 1 volume manuscript, bound and loose papers.

Contributors

Acquisition note

Purchased 1927.

Biographical note

The Hospital de San Andrés was founded in the city of Mexico in 1779. During the nineteenth century it was the most important hospital in the city.

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).

Ownership note

The items in this collection formed part of the León Collection.

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