Descemet, Jean (1732-1810)

Vertus des plantes suivant le Catalogue du Jardin des Apoticaires (Epitome).

c. 1775

1 volume 40 pp. 4to. 191/2 x 16 cm. Original flowered paper covers.

Purchased 1933.

The author qualified at the Faculté de Médecine, Paris in 1758, and was appointed professor of surgery and physiology. He was the first to discover the internal membrane of the cornea.

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).