Petit, Antoine (1718-1794)

Cours de Médecine. Notes of lectures by an unnamed student: incomplete. Contents: Vol. II, second part. Containing 'Cacochymie', Maladies vénériennes, scorbuts. III. Inflammations. End of the index wanting. IV. Maladies des vices de l'éstomae. Traité des fièvres. V. Des maladies a Serosa colluvie [des poisons, des maladies comateuses]; beginning of the first section only. This MS. has been ascribed to Antoine Petit, though the text does not agree with those of MSS. 3843, 3844 where the same subjects are dealt with in part, and the order seems to be different. But these two MSS., and the present MS. are incomplete, and in this MS., Vol. IV, p. 69, the 'Traité des fièvres' is definitely stated to be 'Par Mr. Petit'. Produced in Paris.

c. 1775

1 volume 2 bl. ll. + 185 pp. + 1 l. + 1 l. + 290 pp. + 1 l. + 2 ll. + 233 pp. + 2 ll. + 1 l. + 28 pp. 4to. 221/2 × 18 cm. Original green vellum binding, with tape ties, one wanting. Leaves have been torn out at the end of each section, and at the end: upper corner of p.1/2.

Purchased 1930.

A note by a bookseller in pencil on the first fly-leaf states 'Par Chiracq Paris', but this seems certainly to be incorrect.

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).