Pratique Londres, approximately 1785.

2 notebooks : illustrated ; 17 cm

French

In French

Available for research.

Two handwritten notebooks by an unidentified French-speaking physician who travelled to London to learn about medical practice there. The notebooks are labelled F and G and contain 87 and 26 numbered pages respectively. The author recorded remedies, medical conditions and treatments, and details of anatomy, sometimes with the name of an English physician or surgeon attached, as, for example "Petite vérole [smallpox]. Blagden." The range of topics are widespread. The information appears to come from meeting physicians and surgeons in London and from reading their publications. He noted the extensive use of opium as a remedy, and that the British used a lot of mineral remedies. He mentioned operations he had observed, especially by Justamond, and anatomical specimens he had seen in the Hunterian Museum. Some of the entries are short essays: "Education physique des enfans à Londres" and "Observations sur les témperamens physique des Angloise." There are no dates in the notebooks, but there is a list in notebook F of individuals whom the author met in London, from which the approximate year of his visit could be determined. The G notebook contains two pages on Paris (25-26).

Journal de médecine

March 09, 2016

Notebooks.