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197 - MEDICINE. 25 letters or documents by doctors, L.
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MEDICINE. 25 letters or documents by doctors, L.A.S., P.A.S. or P.S., 17th–18th centuries. Pascal Borie (1761, certificate), Claude Boyvin (1606), François Chicoyneau (2: 1746, certificate for the Invalides, countersigned by d’Argenson; 1750, licence for Abbé Doyen’s ointment, with a fine red wax seal bearing his coat of arms; plus 3 engravings of his coat of arms, and a postscript from his widow), Jacques Cousinot (1625), François Desmonceaux de Villeneuve (1787, concerning the supplement to his treatise on diseases of the eyes and ears), Pierre Du Chesne (1705), Charles-François Félix (1676), Claude de Frades (Dourdan 1688), Claude-Marie Giraud (1705), Antoine Gouan (Montpellier 1772, on botany, with portrait attached), Henri Grandjean ‘the King’s eye surgeon’ (1780, prescription including a purgative), François de La Rue (Nevers 1754), Simon Letellier (1621), Louis-Jean Le Thieullier (3, 1736–1750, plus enclosures), Loustanneau ‘the King’s chief surgeon’ (1789), Jean Morand (1706), Johann Müller (Lindau 1668, letter to Charles Spon in Lyon), Pierre-Toussaint Navier (1779, receipt for fees for visits on Saint Hubert’s Day), Hugues de Salins (Dijon, 1693), Théodore Tronchin (1777, recommending Chevalier Herries to the Count of Vergennes), de Vauxel (1732), etc. Enclosed: – letters of master’s qualification in surgery in the town of Nérac for S. Bares, 1722, 3 signatures of royal physicians and surgeons (parchment); – a master’s certificate in surgery from Villeneuve-de-Berg for J.H. Feuillade, 1755, 9 signatures (vellum); – a certificate from the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon (1709); – 5 notes and manuscripts (surgical treatment record, 1788, remedies, etc.); – 3 printed documents, including 2 theses (1764–1786).
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About the sale Letters and Autograph Manuscripts – Part I
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Auction time 10/13/2026 at 2:00 PM
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