Cours de matière medicale par monsieur Alphonse Leroy, between 1770-1780.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Leroy, Alphonse Vincent Louis Antoine, 1741?-1816.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Materia medica--Early works to 1800.

Materia medica.

Medicine--Study and teaching--France--18th century.

Medicine.

Medicine--Study and teaching.

France.

Genre:

Codices.

Lecture notes.

Manuscripts, French.

Penn Provenance:

Inscription facing first page: Bodson docteur n Médecine à Liège 1786.

Sold by Leo Cadogan Rare Books (London, England), 2017.

Physical Description:

1 volume

Place of Publication:

between 1770-1780.

Language Note:

In French.

Summary:

Leather bound volume containing lecture notes in French by an unknown student probably between the years 1770 to 1780. The lecture course in materia medica was taught by Alphonse Vincent Louis Antoine Leroy, a Parisian professor of medicine and physician of obstetrics and pediatrics. The lecture notes comprise studies of acids, air, astringents, earth, electricity, honey, metals, oil, plants, purgatives, and soaps and their effects on the body. There are discussions regarding the body concerning bile, digestion, formation of the body, sweat, and thirst. The numbered pages and the table of contents at the end of the volume appear to be in a different hand. They were probably written by Doctor Bodson of Liège whose inscription is facing the title page: Bodson docteur n Médecine à Liège 1786. "Cours de matie medicate" is stamped on the spine.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1817.

OCLC:

1002864281