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PEYRONIE, François Gigot de la (1678-1747, surgeon to Louis XV). Autograph letter signed to an unidentified correspondent, Versailles, 18 April 1737, 2½ pages, 4to, and a portrait engraving.
A letter to a colleague on the slow progress of his publication and deprecating some works which have recently appeared: 'Depuis plus d'un an il ne paroit icy en medecine et en chirurgie que des ouvrages polemiques qui ... ne sont point de mon gout, je prefere les ouvrages qui instruisent a ceux qui peuvent nuire a ces professions et qui ne font que divertir le public. il est rare que les disputes animées de l'esprit de parti puissent eclaircir les difficultés d'un art et plaire aux scavants'.
La Peyronie, the founder in 1731 of the Académie royale de Chirurgie, was instructed to collect memoranda on all aspects of surgery. By distinguishing surgeons from barbers, he helped to raise them to the status already conceded to physicians. (2)
A letter to a colleague on the slow progress of his publication and deprecating some works which have recently appeared: 'Depuis plus d'un an il ne paroit icy en medecine et en chirurgie que des ouvrages polemiques qui ... ne sont point de mon gout, je prefere les ouvrages qui instruisent a ceux qui peuvent nuire a ces professions et qui ne font que divertir le public. il est rare que les disputes animées de l'esprit de parti puissent eclaircir les difficultés d'un art et plaire aux scavants'.
La Peyronie, the founder in 1731 of the Académie royale de Chirurgie, was instructed to collect memoranda on all aspects of surgery. By distinguishing surgeons from barbers, he helped to raise them to the status already conceded to physicians. (2)
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