Balneotherapy: Barèges, France

Correspondence and papers of Dr Delpit, medical inspector of mineral waters and chief physician of the military hospital, Barèges, dép. Hautes Pyrénées (probably Jean François Delpit, physician at Barèges, d. 1830). The file includes:

1-90 Letters to Delpit concerning patients referred to him, with accounts of their preceding case histories.

91-152 Case notes by Delpit, with recommendations for therapy.

153-220 Correspondence and papers of Delpit, mainly relating to the medicinal waters of Baréges and the military hospital.

1804-1828

220 items

Purchased from Charavay, Paris, 1935.

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).