Leroy, Alphonse Louis Vincent (1742-1816)

Cours d'accouchement, par M. Alphonse Le Roy, Proffesseur à l'École de Médecine de Paris. Années 1797, 1798. Notes of lectures taken down by the student Pelican whose name appears on the title-page. Produced in Paris.

1797-1798

1 volume 1 l. + 86 pp. + 2 ll. (last bl.). 4to. 251/2 x 20 cm. Modern quarter-vellum binding.

Purchased 1935.

The author obtained his M.D. at Paris in 1778, and after the reorganization of the Faculté de Médecine, Paris, was appointed professor of obstetrics. He was murdered by a servant whom he had dismissed.

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).