Chirac, Pierre (1650-1732)

Notes of Chirac's lectures.

1696-1734

21 volumes

Purchased from various sources in 1909 (acc.21462B, 22441), 1912 (acc.31235), 1913 (acc.32168), 1927 (acc.46550D), 1929 (acc.50700, 55100, 75965), 1930 (acc.55450), 1931 (acc.63955, 64031), 1932 (acc.65410, 65642, 65651, 65653), 1933 (acc.66039, 66052, 66077), 1936 (acc.69456) and 1997 (acc.350770).

Pierre Chirac was the most celebrated physician of his day; he obtained his M.D. at Montpellier in 1683, and by 1687 was professor of medicine. He was elected a Member of the Académie des Sciences in 1716, became head of the Jardin du Roi in 1718, and physician to Louis XV in 1731.

At Wellcome Collection: Further material by Chirac can be found in the notes on medical plants held as MSS.4825-4827.

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).

MS.1601 is from the Berhard VI Collection and MS.1602 from the Berhard III Collection.