French Medical and Surgical Compendium, 18th century

A compendium of medicine and surgery compiled by an unidentified student, comprising notes of lectures by Jean Astruc (1684-1766), professor of Medicine at the Collège Royal, copies of theses by Antoine Fizes (1689-1765), professor for medicine at Montpellier, and an anonymous treatise on head wounds. With two printed doctoral dissertations.

ff. 1-9v. Blank.

ff. 10r - 107v. Notes of lectures by Jean Astruc, [delivered at the Collège Royal, Paris], 1737. 10r - 77v. 'Extrait des Leçons de Mr Astruc, 1737. Des Maladies de la Poitrine'. 78r - 107v 'Des Maladies Generales qui affectent tout notre corps'; notes of lectures on rheumatism, gout and scurvy. For a similar manuscript, cf Bibliothèque Municipale d'Epernay, ms. 178-65, noted by P. Huard in Biographies médicales et scientifiques, XVIII Siècle (Paris, 1972), p.25. Neither text ever seems to have been printed.

ff. 108r - 113v. Blank.

ff. 114r - 147r. Theses by Antoine Fizes, 1721, 1724. 114r - 128v. 'Specimen Medico-Chyrurgicum De Suppuratione in Patibus Mollibus... Cujus Propositionum veritatem... Propugnabit Petrus Rocques Montalbalnensis... 1721. Praeside... Henrico Haguenot...' 129r - 147r. 'Specimen Medico-Chyrurgicum In quo praecipui Suppurationis Eventus in partibus Mollibus Expenduntur. Cujus Propositionum Veritatem... propugnabit Johannes Franciscus Valadon Biterrensis... 1724. Praeside... Jacobo Lazerme...' Copies of two these composed by Fizes and presented by two Montpellier medical students, Pierre Rocques and Jean François Valadon. A French translation, 'Sur la suppuration des parties molles' was published in P. Chirac, Observations de chirurgie (Paris, 1742).

ff. 147v - 149v. Blank.

ff. 150r - 173v. 'Traité des Players à la Tete'; anonymous treatise on head wounds, n.d. [c.1730].

ff. 174r - 179v. Blank.

ff. 180r - 228v. Printed dissertations, 1738. 180r - 208r. Johann Philipp Grauel [1711-1761], 'De Superfoetatione Coniecturas', Strasbourg, 1738. 209r - 228v. Franz Jakob Sachs, 'De Ulmo', Strasbourg, 1738.