Jean-Noël HALLÉ (1754-1822), Napoleon's first physician, pro - Lot 28

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Jean-Noël HALLÉ (1754-1822), Napoleon's first physician, pro - Lot 28
Jean-Noël HALLÉ (1754-1822), Napoleon's first physician, promoter of vaccinia and hygiene education. Autograph letter signed to physician Jean-Louis Bagot (1727-1794), mayor of Saint-Brieuc. 3 pp. in-4. Paris, May 12, 1780. On the epidemiological survey conducted in Brittany at the request of the Société Royale de Médecine [Bagot had been appointed by the King, physician for the epidemics of Brittany]. "Happy to be in a position to admire your work in discharging the duty imposed on me by the Royal Society [of Medicine] in handing over to me all that concerns the correspondence of the province of Brittany, I hasten to express to you all the esteem which your lights and your zeal have inspired in this company. In the details you present, we follow with pleasure the march of nature, well felt and expressed with clarity and precision. The description of St Brieuc that you put at the head of your correspondence is undoubtedly sufficient for the purpose you propose to fulfill entirely. But in addition to the study of epidemic diseases and the different constitutions peculiar to each town, to each canton; one of the aims that the society proposes by bringing together the topographical descriptions of each region, to succeed in forming a general topography of the different provinces that make up France [...]". An engraved portrait is included.
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