Poissonnier, Pierre (1720-1798)

Traité des maladies de la tête par Monsieur Poissonnier: recuilli dans les leçons publiques qu'il nous a fait y joint un traité de fièvre avec un recueil des médicaments externes de Mr. [Charles] Le Roy [1726-1779] de Montpellier. Recuilli et fait par moy Joseph Simon chirurgien. Maladies de la tête [etc.] (pp. 3-62); Fièvres (pp. 64-140); Médicaments externes (pp. 141-142). Produced in Montpellier.

c. 1775

1 volume 242 pp. + 6 ll. (last bl.). 8vo. 18 × 111/2 cm. Modern half-calf-gilt binding.

Purchased 1930.

Poissonnier obtained his M.D. at Paris in 1743, and was professor of chemistry at the Collège de France in 1746. In 1756 he became a 'Premier Médecin' to the French Forces, and after a diplomatic mission to Russia was appointed a Lieutenant-General in the Russian Army by the Empress Elizabeth in 1738. In 1761 he was made a 'Consiller d'État', and finally Inspector-General of the French Army in 1764. Charles Le Roy was also a physician and physicist, who obtained his M.D. at Montpellier in 1752, and was a professor of medicine there in 1757. He later practised in Paris from 1777 to the time of his death.

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).