Barailon, Jean François (1743-1816)

Journal de médecine, année 1777 [à 1789]. Author's holograph MSS. These MSS. are mainly case-books, with full details of the writer's patients and their illnesses. On the third un-numbered leaf of Vol. I is an entry dated 19/7/1813 stating that on that date the compiler 'fut créé chevalier de l'Ordre Impérial de la Réunion'. Produced in Chambon.

1777-1813

3 volumes 3 vols. folio. 341/2 x 23 cm. Original vellum binding, with leather ties.

Purchased 1927.

The author was a physician and magistrate of Chambon, and was a member of the Convention in 1792. He was there distinguished by his moderate and sensible views. He voted against the death penalty for Louis XVI, and later engaged in educational reforms. He was a member of the Corps Législatif until 1806, and Procureur du Roi at Chambon in 1814. He is also known as an archaeologist of the Celtic and Roman antiquities of France.

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).