Blanchard, Raphaël Anatole Émile (1887-1919)

Catalogue of the collection of coins, medals, plaques, jétons, and tokens relating to medicine. With holograph descriptions and notes, additions by other hands, extracts and cuttings from printed catalogues, etc. Produced in Paris.

c. 1910

14 volumes 14 vols. 4to. 22 x 17 cm. Unbound in uniform spring-back folders.

Purchased 1919.

Professor Blanchard obtained his M.D. in Paris in 1880, and was elected Member of the Académie de Médecine in 1894. He was the pioneer in the study of Parasitology in France, and 1885-1889 published his Traité de Zoologie médicale which became a standard work. He was the founder of the Société zoologique de France (1876) and of the Société d'Histoire de la Médecine in 1902.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

The collection described in the Catalogue was in the Wellcome collection of museum objects transferred to the Science Museum.