Lanier

La pratique [de médecine]. The text is in French, but the headings are in Latin. Contents: Maladies de la tête (pp. 1-101); Maladies de la poitrine (pp. 110-177); Maladies du bas ventre (pp. 177-374); Maladies des femmes (pp. 375-497); Maladies des enfans (pp. 498-580); Maladies des articulations (pp. 581-end). Signature of '[F.] Artance 15 Feb. 1866' on a fly-leaf. Lettered on the spine 'Pratique de Berbeirac'. This MS. is apparently a volume of notes of lectures based on Barbeyrac's teaching, given at Strassburg University, perhaps by Lanier himself, or taken down by him when a student. Produced in Strassburg.

1741-1742

1 volume 626 pp. + 4 ll. 4to. 221/2 × 17 cm. Original stamped calf-gilt binding. Three leaves have been cut out before and after the index.

Purchased 1919.

The writer of the MS. is Lanier, a physician of Strassburg, whose name appears on p. 497 and p. 580. On an unpaginated leaf between p. 497 and p. 498, he has written 'Je laisse à Monsieur Milleau vingt sept cayers et un traité de formules qu'il aura la bonté de remettre à Monsieur Pia de Strasbourg ce 29 avril 1742. Lanier'.

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).