Breschet, Gilbert (1784-1845)

Histoire des phlegmasies des vaisseaux ou de l'angite. 1re Mémoire: de l'artérite. Inflammations du système nerveux en général [fragment]. Author's holograph MSS. At the end of the 'Mémoire' is a list of contemporary French scientists and physicians.

c. 1825

1 volume 1 l. + 8 ff. + 3 ll., 5 ll. last bl.. 4to. v.s. Unbound.

Purchased 1933.

The author obtained his M.D. at Paris in 1812, and in 1819 succeeded Béclard as professor of anatomy and surgery at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris. He was elected a Member of the Académie des Sciences in 1835.

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).