Baudot, Louis Bénigne (1765-1844)

Dissertation sur l'état de la Science médicale à Dijon, et sur les maladies contagieuses (pp. 1-220). Notes relatives à l'institution du Voeu à Ste Anne, et à son renouvellement (pp. 223-242). Préservatif et guérison de la peste: par Claude Fabri 1568 [Transcript] (pp. 255-358). Notes relatives à la Maladrerie de Dijon (pp. 359-376). Choléra morbus à Dijon, 1832 (pp. 377-382). Author's holograph MSS. The correct title of the work on plague is 'Paradoxes de la cure de la peste'. Produced in Dijon.

c. 1835

1 volume 401 pp. + 6 bl. ll. folio. 281/2 x 191/2 cm. Original half-calf binding. Pp. 383-400 contain a number of pasted-in notes and oddments, one dated 1930. The title and 'Table' at the end are written in purple ink, probably by Henri Baudot de Charnay: with his monogram-bookplate.

Purchased 1936.

The author was a distinguished lawyer and antiquary of Dijon.

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).

No. 73 of the Baudot MSS., sold at the Vente H. Baudot de Charnay in 1900.