Besançon: École de Médecine

Régistre de consultations données par MM les Professeurs de l'École de Médecine de Besançon.
The 'Consultations' are in Latin or French, and written by many different hands.
Material dated c. 1674-1704 and 1737-1788.
Produced in Besançon.

late 17th century - late 18th century

1 volume 4 ll. + 1215 pp. folio. 291/2 x 191/2 cm. Original calf binding. Some leaves have been torn out at the end: slight damage to outer upper corners towards the end.

Purchased 1930.

The original compilers seem to have been P. Guillo[t] and Cl[aude?] Guillot of Dôle, who may have been father and son, and were both physicians. The elder Guillo[t] has written the headings for many of the entries, and there is an apparently holograph signed entry on p. 496/7 dated 1674. Some of the copied entries date back as far as 1650 (p. 372). The younger Guillo[t] has entries, which are possibly also holograph, from 1696 (p. 219) to 1704 (p. 1187). The later entries, which are by various hands, and are assigned to various physicians, date from 1737 (p. 7) to 1788 (p. 162).

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).

The volume then appears to have come into the possession of a Dr. Atthalin, and there are several entries with his name from 1737 onwards. On the verso of the first leaf is the inscription 'Ex dono D. Atthalin filii professoris 1782' which is signed 'Charles Doct. Med.' Dr. Atthalin's son who is mentioned in this inscription is probably Luc Charles François Xavier Atthalin [1744-1822], an eminent lawyer, who became Président de la Cour de Colmar. The latest date found is 1788.