Calages

Dissertations de Médecine. Recueillies des meilleurs autheurs de ce temps: avec un abbregé des Remèdes le [sic] plus specifiques pour la La [sic] guérison des Maladies Internes. A l'Usage de Mrs. les curés, les médecins, et de touttes [sic] autres personnes qui se consacrent au Service des Malades. Tome troisième qui contient l'explication des maladies de la troisième Cavité. Ff. 135v-142 contain: 'Relation de la maladie de celluy qui a recueilli ces dissertations de médecine, de sa guérison qu'on avoit regardeé comme impossible.' From this we learn that the compiler was Curé of Lunel near Montpellier, and that he was attacked by stone in the bladder in 1699. He refused an operation, but was compelled to agree to be cut. This was successfully done in 1705, when he was operated on by Raisin [ -1719], a 'Chirurgien du Roi' of Toulouse, and recovered completely after 54 days. This MS. is the compiler's holograph copy, perhaps prepared for publication, as there are numerous additions and corrections, together with an elaborate index. Produced in Lunel.

c. 1710

1 volume 2 ll. first bl.. + 206 ff. + 2 ll. 4to. 22 x 17 cm. Original calf binding, worn. Upper and outer margins of the last 30 ll. slightly wormed, and affected by damp.

Purchased 1930.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).