Thorière, Jean Baptistin

Notes of lectures on surgery, transcripts of short essays on physiology, and other medical subjects, medical receipts, etc.: in French. Compiler's holograph MS. The spelling throughout is eccentric especially as regards proper names: thus 'Mereit' for 'Méry', 'Listré' for 'Littré', 'Vuinslou' for Winslow'. Contents: On the first leaf 'Japartient à nicolas thorière 1749.' Produced in Paris.

1715-1716

1 volume 4 ll. + 532 pp. + 4 bl. ll. 8vo. 181/2 × 131/2 cm. Original calf gilt binding.

Purchased 1909.

On p. 238 and p. 432, Thorière describes himself as 'Estudient en Chirurgie et demeurant chez Mr. Benomont Mre. Chirurgien juré de St. Commes à Paris et Chirurgien de Monsenieur le duc de berry, Rue de lechelle près les tuillerie'.

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).