Lecoq, Henri (1802-1871)

Matière médicale. Author's holograph MS. Illustrated with 7 folding coloured plates and one single sheet illustrating the assimilation, digestion, etc. of drugs and remedies: also by 8 full-page pen-drawings of fungi, and 340 pen-drawings of medicinal plants, four to a page. The original MS., with signature of Lecoq inside cover, and his library label 'MS 6'. This work is apparently unpublished. The script has been compared with an autograph letter, dated 1870, and it seems that this MS. was composed towards the end of the author's life.

c. 1865

1 volume 3 bl. ll. + 265 pp. + 85 ll. + 7 bl. ll. 4to. 261/2 x 21 cm. Original boards.

Purchased 1919.

He was Doctor of Science at Lyons University, and was afterwards professor of natural history, and later Dean of the Faculté des Sciences at Clermont-Ferrand.

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).

From the Debacq Collection.