Allaire de Lozeillère, Alexis

Le médecin familier. Author's holograph MS., apparently unpublished. It is dedicated to Louis de Bailleul, Marquis de Châteaugontier, etc. [1622-1701], 'Président de Parlement', an office which he resigned in favour of his son in 1689. It is a treatise on hygiene based on the human temperaments, and contains many remedies for maladies caused by defects or excess of these temperaments. The last 6 ll. contain a 'Traité de la peste'.

c. 1685

1 volume 10 ll. first & last 2 bl. + 231 pp. + 24 ll. first 2 & last 7 bl.. 8vo. 17 x 11 cm. Original calf binding.

Purchased 1935.

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).