Cullerier, Michel (1758-1827)

Leçons cliniques de maladies vénériennes. Notes of lectures taken down by Philibert Joseph Roux [1780-1854]. By the same hand as that of the Roux MSS. Nos. 4290-4293. Produced in Paris.

c. 1805

1 volume 4 bl. ll. + 348 pp. 319-end bl.. 4to. 191/2 x 15 cm. Original quarter-calf binding.

Purchased 1930.

The author was a physician of the Faculté de Médecine, Paris, and was elected to the Académie de Médecine in 1821. He was chief surgeon to the Hospital for Venereal Diseases at Bicêtre. In 1792 he had made experiments in the working of the guillotine on human corpses.

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).