MEDICINE. Louis-Benoit GUERSANT (Dreux 1777-1848),... - Lot 42 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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MEDICINE. Louis-Benoit GUERSANT (Dreux 1777-1848),... - Lot 42 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
MEDICINE. Louis-Benoit GUERSANT (Dreux 1777-1848), physician and botanist; pediatrician at the Hospital des Enfants malades, member of the Academy of Medicine; consulting physician to King Louis-Philippe, he was physician to the royal children under the July Monarchy. A friend of Lamarck and Cuvier, he also held the chair of natural history and botany at the École centrale de Rouen. - set of about fifteen autograph manuscripts of autopsy reports, consultations, clinical case studies: drafts forming 45 pp. in-4 and in-folio, very full. - 40 letters and notes addressed to him by doctors, pediatricians, obstetricians (Antoine Dubois, Dourlen, etc.) and some patients, describing clinical cases (mainly for children) and asking for advice, sometimes accompanied by draft replies.
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