Noël, Joseph (1753-1808), director of the Strasbourg medical school

Cours Elémentaire et Complet de Médecine Légale...,' transcribed by Louis-Ferdinand Lataud, medical student, Strasbourg, 1808. Notes of lectures on legal medicine delivered by Joseph Noël between 25 April and 20 June 1808. With additional notes perhaps from memoranda for lectures undelivered. [Noël died 29 June 1808.] ff. 3r.-12r. Funeral oration for Noël, by Pierre-René Flamant (1762-1833), professor at the Strasbourg medical school, 1 July 1808. ff. 13r.-67v. Course of lectures on legal medicine, in twenty two lessons, covering conception, pregnancy, childbirth, puberty, ageing, sterility, impotence, rape, pederasty, and various types of wound. ff. 67v.-131r. Additional notes on legal medicine, including simulated illness, exemptions to military service, signs of death, homicide and other types of violent or accidental death. ff. 131v.-142v. Notes on public health and the law. ff. 143r.-149r. Notes on preparing reports and certificates. f. 149v. Partial table of contents. ff. 150r.-160v. Blank.

1808

160 ff. (original pagination i-xxi, 1-267) 1 vol., 200 × 160 mm. Original, quarter-calf binding, lettered 'Médecine légale P. Lataud' on spine.

Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 1994.

Described in typescript supplements, by Christopher Hilton and Richard Aspin, to the Library's published finding aids.

Bookplate of Louis-Ferdinand Lataud, 'docteur en médecine', inside front cover.