Letters and papers received by Desgenettes

1. Military permit to pass freely over the pont du Var between France and Italy. Nice, 9 Feb. 1793 (year II). 1f.

2. Order from the Inspecteurs généraux du Service de Santé des Armées to the chief medical officers of the army at Toulon forbidding the employment of unauthorised medical personnel. Paris, 12 Floréal VI [1 May 1798]. 2ff.

3. Order from General Louis Alexandre Berthier, chief of staff, to attend a meeting to establish the lazaretto for Cairo. Cairo, 12 Fructidor VI [29 August 1798]. 1f.

4. Certificate from the chief medical officers of the military hospital, Damietta, concerning citizen Lintrigue, storekeeper of the fort, suspected of having died from plague. Damietta, 19 Vendémiaire VI [10 Oct. 1798]. 2ff.

5. Circular from citizen Sucy, quartermaster general. Cairo, 2 Brumaire VII [23 Oct. 1798]. 1f.

6. Letter from Pierre Remon to Napoléon Bonaparte suggesting a cure for dysentery, forwarded by Berthier for Desgenettes' opinion. (?)Cairo, 3 Brumaire VII [24 Oct. 1798] 1f.

7. Letter from Pierre Louis Dupas, commandant of the citadel of Cairo, on the danger of infection from sick Turkish prisoners in the citadel hospital. Cairo, 12 Brumaire VII [2 Nov. 1798]. 1f.

8. Circular from Antoine Léger Sartelon,Commissaire des guerres. Cairo, 1 Frimaire VII [21 Nov. 1798]. 1f.

9. Report by citizens Barbès and Renaldi, army doctors, on the condition of barracks and military prisons in the old city of Cairo. Cairo, 3 Nivose VII [23 Dec. 1798]. 2ff.

10. Letter from citizen Blanc, director of lazarettos, on precautions against the spread of plague and requesting advice on burning or washing the effects of victims. Cairo, 15 Nivose VII [5 Jan. 1799]. 1f.

11. Letter from the same on quarantining Alexandria and the danger of plague infection to the Egyptian interior. Cairo, 23 Nivose VII [13 Jan. 1799]. 1f.

12. Order from General Berthier to investigate cases of suspected malingering. Cairo, 2 Pluviose VII [22 Jan. 1799]. 1f.

13. Order from Jean Pierre Paulin Hector Daure, quartermaster general. Cairo, 6 Pluviose VII [26 Jan. 1799]. 1f.

14. Letter from Blanc enclosing hospital regulations (not present). Cairo, 7 Pluviose VII [27 Jan. 1799]. 1f.

15-17. Orders from Daure on arrangements for departure [for Syria]. Cairo, 8-18 Pluviose VII [28 Jan.-7 Feb. 1799]. 1f.

18-19. Orders from citizen Laigle, Commissaire Ordonnateur des guerres, to citizen Emeric, chief medical officer of the army in Egypt, [Desgenettes' deputy] to despatch two doctors to Damietta. Cairo, 6, 8 Germinal VII [27, 29 March 1799]. 1f.

20. Letter from the same to the chief medical officers on a case of `maladie contagieuse' at Ibrahim Bey hospital. Cairo, 8 Floréal VII [28 April 1799]. 1f.

21. Letter from Daure on the application of citizen Vautier, pharmacist 1st class, for transfer to the medical service. Cairo, 3 Messidor VII [22 June 1799]. 1f.

22. Circular from the same. Cairo, 3 Messidor VII [22 June 1799]. 1f.

23. Circular from citizen Bouquin, Commissaire des guerres. Cairo, 8 Messidor VII [27 June 1799]. 1f.

24. Letter from Daure on citizen Vautier's transfer. Cairo, 14 Messidor VII [3 July 1799]. 1f.

25. Letter from the same on a gratuity for Desgenettes from Bonaparte. Cairo, 24 Messidor VII [13 July 1799]. 1f.

26. Letter from the sanitary officers of Cairo on `maladie contagieuse' in the citadel's prison. Cairo, 24 Thermidor VII [12 August 1799]. 1f.

27. Order from Daure instructing the chief medical officers to give full details when certifying invalidity. Cairo, 24 Fructidor VII [11 Sept. 1799]. 1f.

28. Letter from citizen Guirard, chief sanitary officer of Cairo, on quarantining and other preventive measures. Cairo, 7 Brumaire VIII [29 Oct. 1799]. 1f.

29-30. Letters from General Charles François Joseph Dugua on death statistics. Cairo, 1, 5 Frimaire VIII [22, 26 Nov. 1799]. 1f.

31. Letter from E. Michaux, Commissaire Ordonnateur des guerres, on reprovisioning the hospital at Rosetta which Desgenettes had reported to be in disorder. Cairo, 3 Nivose VIII [24 Dec. 1799]. 3ff.

32. Letter from citizen Le Roy, Ordonnateur de la Marine en Egypte, suggesting citizen Casabianca, army surgeon, should accompany the wounded [back to France] since the navy had no doctors. Cairo, 19 Nivose VIII [9 Jan. 1800]. 1f.

33. Letter from the same offering his premises for the next meeting of the Commission Extraordinaire de Salubrité Publique. Cairo, 20 Nivose VIII [10 Jan. 1800]. 1f.

34-35. Letters from citizen Barbès of the Commission de Salubrité Publique of Lesbeh, on medical conditions at Lesbeh and Damietta and noting the deleterious effects of the local `eau de vie' on the soldiery. Lesbeh, 22-23 Nivose VIII [12-13 Jan. 1800].

36. Letter from Le Roy requesting advice on victualling ships. Cairo, 4 Pluviose VIII [24 Jan. 1800]. 1f.

37. Letter from citizen Guerin on routine arrangements. Cairo, 5 Pluviose VIII [25 Jan. 1800]. 1f.

38-39. Letters from citizen Guirard on minor administrative matters. Cairo, 11, 15 Pluviose VIII [31 Jan., 4 Feb. 1800]. 1f.

40. Letter from General Dugua's aide-de-camp on accommodation for Mme Pardies(?). Cairo, 16 Pluviose (VIII, 5 Feb. 1800]. 1f.

41. Letter from citizen Calvi, army doctor, on medical arrangements. Cairo, 26 Pluviose VIII [15 Feb. 1800]. 1f.

42. Letter from Jean-Baptiste Kléber, General in chief, asking Desgenettes to attend an unidentified `pasha'. Cairo, 28 Pluviose VIII [17 Feb. 1800]. 1f.

43. Circular from citizen Regnier, Commissaire des guerres. Cairo, 29 Pluviose VII [18 Feb. 1800]. 1f.

44. Letter of thanks from the Comité administratif. Cairo, 19 Messidor VIII [8 July 1800]. 1f.

45. Letter from Hector Daure on a transfer request by citizen Balme, medical officer of the 22nd demie-brigade of light infantry. Cairo, 24 Messidor VIII [13 July 1800]. 2ff.

46. Letter from citizen Legois, Commissaire des guerres, on finding a replacement for Doctor Savaresi, victim of ophthalmia. Cairo, 15 Thermidor VIII [3 August 1800]. 1f.

47. Letter from Antoine Sartelon, quartermaster, on the proposed evacuation of dysentery victims to Rosetta or Alexandria. Cairo, 23 Thermidor VIII [11 August 1800]. 1f.

48-49. Letters from Daure on administrative matters. Cairo, 25-26 Thermidor VIII [13-14 August 1800]. 1f.

50. Invitation from Luc Duranteau, adjutant general, to the festival of the opening of the Khalij. Cairo, 28 Thermidor VIII [16 August 1800]. 1f.

51-52. Letters from General Augustin-Daniel Belliard, commandant of Cairo, on administrative matters. Cairo, 7,16 Vendémiaire IX [29 Sept., 8 Oct. 1800].

53. Copy letters from Desgenettes to Jacques François Menou, general in chief, on conditions in the Mouristan [a Cairo hospital], where inmates are in danger of dying from hunger. Cairo, 22-23 Vendémiaire IX [14-15 Oct. 1800]. 1f.

54. Letter from Antoine Sartelon on his appointment as quartermaster general. Cairo, 7 Brumaire IX [29 Oct. 1800]. 1f.

55. Letter from General Belliard on measures to improve billets. Cairo, 10 Brumaire IX [1 Nov. 1800]. 1f.

56. `Délibérations du comité de salubrité de la ville de Caire'. 17 Vendémiaire-21 Brumaire [IX. 9 Oct.- 12 Nov. 1800]. 2ff.

57. Letter from Alessandro Gisleni, army doctor, on the lazaretto at Alexandria. Alexandria, 30 Brumaire IX [21 Nov. 1800]. 1f. In Italian.

58. Letter from Martin-Roch-Xavier Estève, Directeur général et Comptable des Revenus publics de l'Egypte, on a campaign bonus for medical officers. Cairo, 23 Frimaire IX [14 Dec. 1800]. 2ff.

59. Memorandum by Desgenettes to General Menou on hospital administration in Egypt. 30 Frimaire IX [21 Dec. 1800]. 2ff. Holograph copy.

This memorandum does not seem to be mentioned in Desgenettes' own account of the expedition, Histoire Médicale de l'Armée d'Orient (Paris, 1802).

60. Letter from General Joseph Lagrange, chief of staff, enclosing a list of deaths at Rosetta during the second decade of Nivose. Cairo, 25 Nivose IX [15 Jan. 1801]. 3ff.

61. Letter from Le Roy, Préfet maritime de l'Egypte, on the appointment of citizen Emeric as physician in chief of the naval force preparing to transport the army [back to France]. Cairo, 3 Pluviose IX [23 Jan. 1801]. 1f.

62. Letter from General Lagrange enclosing a list of deaths at Rosetta during the third decade of Nivose. Cairo, 8 Pluviose IX [28 Jan. 1801]. 3ff.

63-64. Letters from General Belliard on administrative matters. Cairo, 10-11 Pluviose IX [30-31 Jan. 1801]. 1f.

65. Letter from the same on plague victims at Giza. Cairo, 12 Pluviose IX [1 Feb. 1801].

66-67. Letters from General Lagrange enclosing lists of deaths at Rosetta for the first decades of Nivose and Pluviose. Cairo, 19, 28 Pluviose IX [8,17 Feb. 1801].

68. Letter from Jean Louis Ebenezer Reynier, Directeur des Revenus en nature et du Mobilier national, on the dangers of infection from the seizure of goods. Cairo, 28 Pluviose IX [17 Feb. 1801]. 1f.

69. Letter from Antoine Sartelon on plans for departure. Cairo, 20 Ventose IX [11 March 1801]. 1f.

70-73. Letters from General Belliard on minor administrative arrangements. Cairo, 4 Germinal-23 Messidor IX [25 March - 12 July 1801]. 1f.

74. News bulletin [from the French government authorities in Egypt. 1801]. 2ff. Incomplete.

75. Letter of thanks from René Desfontaines, director of the Museum of Natural History, Paris. Paris, 19 Frimaire X [10 Dec. 1801]. 1f.

76. Request from Louis-Joseph-Philippe Ballois to contribute to Annales de statistique. Paris, 25 Ventose X [18 March 1802]. 1f.

77. Letter from M. Mathieu-Sarcey (?) on the death of M. Vénencie, army doctor at Würzburg. Berlin, 13 May 1808. 2ff.

78-79. Letters from Jean François Combes, quartermaster for Saxony, on military hospitals. Dresden, 2, 4 August 1813. 1f.

80-81. Letters from Jean François Lambert, Baron Lambert, L'Inspecteur en chef aux revues de la Grande-Armée, on army doctors. Dresden, 16, 21 Sept. 1813.

1793-1813

81 items

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