Rochefort

The collection's original function was to respond to the strictly educational needs of medical instruction built around hands-on proficiency. It evolved over time to match the intellectual level of ships' surgeons as they continued to extend the scope of their skills.

Now endowed with some 25,000 works, the library is a first-class source of references on the evolution of naval medicine: treatises on maritime and tropical diseases, accounts of voyages, improvement of onboard living conditions, sanitation services in the colonies, etc. Daily life is also represented through first-hand accounts by doctors and surgeons, logbooks, etc.

The library is open to the public by appointment from Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Documents cannot be taken away.

Readers can locate information using the manual indexes per author and per subject.
Assistance is available.

Requests can be made to the librarians by e-mail.

However, before writing we recommend that you use the search engine: the information you're looking for may be available on this site.

E-mail: Rochefort@musee-marine.fr

Bibliothèque de l'ancienne école de médecine navale

25, rue de l'Amiral Meyer
17300 Rochefort

- Phone : 05 46 99 59 57
- Fax : 05 46 99 59 57
- E-mail: Rochefort@musee-marine.fr