Sauvages de la Croix, François Boissier de (1706-1767)

Institutionum medicarum pars quarta, seu therapeutice. Tentamen medicophisicum circa theoriam inflammationis et therapeiam. Pro bachaloreatus gradu consequendo. The first work is an unnamed student's notes of lectures, probably at the Jardin des Plantes at Paris. The second work is by a different hand, and is perhaps an abridgement of the author's essay, first published in 1743, and afterwards printed with his translation of the 'Haemastaticks' of Stephen Hales in 1744. Produced in Paris.

mid-18th century

1 volume 1 l. + 136 pp. + 3 ll. (last bl.). + 12 ll. (last bl.). 8vo. 171/2 × 12 cm. Original boards, damaged. The lower margin of the title has been cut away.

Purchased 1923.

The author obtained his M.D. at Montpellier in 1726, and later went to practise in Paris where he was appointed professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes in 1751.

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).