Pointe, Honoré Joseph (1738-1797)

Institutions de médecine, où on a rassemblé les principes élémentaires les plus vrays, les plus utiles et les plus nécessaires à l'art de guérir: fondés sur la doctrine de Stahl, et sur celle des meilleurs auteurs. Author's holograph MS. Produced in Lyons.

c. 1765

1 volume 212 ll. (last 18 bl.). 8vo. 18 × 111/2 cm. Original quarter-calf-gilt binding.

Purchased 1935.

Signed on the title-page by the author who had graduated as surgeon at Lyons in 1764, and was a maître-chirurgien in 1769. He was against the Revolution, and was assassinated in 1797 in Lyons where he had been born and where he had practised.

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).