Journal of a visit to Paris

Included are narratives of visits to the Surgeons' College of Saint-Côme, and to the hospitals of Les Invalides, L'Hôtel-Dieu, and La Charité. At the latter Baker witnessed operations for fistula in ano and facial abscess by Sauveur François Morand (1697-1773), whose collection on the pathology of bones he also inspected.

June-July 1732

1 volume 1 volume: 230 × 175 mm., 28 ff. Paper covers, with an inscription by Baker's grandson E F Dimond, dated 1850.

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).