Finding Aid for the Henry Sigerist Translation of "The People's Misery" Biomed.0291

Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.
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Online finding aid last updated 2020 December 7.
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Henry Sigerist translation of "The People's Misery"
Creator: Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0291
Physical Description: 1 unknown (part 1-2)
Date (inclusive): 1941
Language of Material: English , Latin .

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 6053381 

Scope and Contents

Collection consists of two manuscript parts. Part 1: Henry Sigerist's manuscript translation from Latin to English of Johann Peter Frank's 1790 address, "The people's misery: mother of diseases". Part 2: Sigerist's introduction to his paper, "The people's misery: mother of diseases; an address, delivered in 1790 by Johann Peter Frank" (Bulletin of the history of medicine, v. 9, no. 1, Jan. 1941, p. 81-100). Pt. 1 inscribed to Milton I. Roemer, 1947. Text composed in unlined, blue paper-covered notebooks.