Bouroullec, Julie

Journal de Consultations. Commencé le 20 Décembre 1845. The Journal ends with an entry for 19 May, 1846. Following this are elaborate and detailed accounts for monies received in fees, expenses, etc. These cover the period from April 1846 to February 1848, and occupy 9 leaves: after this come 2 leaves containing the names of patients, with reference to the 1095 numbered entries. Produced in London.

1845, 1846

1 volume 1 bl. 1. + 330 pp. + 13 ll. last 3 bl.. 4to. 20 x 16 cm. Original quarter-calf binding, damaged. The last 3 blank leaves are defective: from p. 144 onwards the outer upper corners and some margins have been affected by damp.

Purchased 1962.

The compiler, was a 'Magnetic Healer' who also used homoeopathic remedies and dosage. She seems to have been associated with Dr. Harris Dunsford, who had been physician to Sir Henry William Paget, first Marquis of Anglesey [1768-1854]. Dunsford was also a homoeopath who died of cholera in 1847 at the age of 39. Her pretensions were exposed by Sir John Forbes, M.D. [1787-1861] in an article in the 'Athenaeum' for Feb. 28, 1846, pp. 221, 222, entitled 'Mademoiselle Julie, or Witchcraft for the Aristocracy', written under the pseudonym of F.

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).