French Dermatologists - Jean Astruc, Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, Ferdinand-Jean Darier, Jean Astruc, Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, Ferdinand-Jean Darier, Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, Henri Gougerot, Charles-Paul Diday Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, Henri Gougerot, Charles-Paul Diday (Paperback)

Chapters: Jean Astruc, Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, Ferdinand-Jean Darier, Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, Henri Gougerot, Charles-Paul Diday, Pierre Francois Olive Rayer, Pierre Louis Alphee Cazenave, Jean Alfred Fournier, Philippe Gaucher, Marie-Guillaume-Alphonse Devergie, Charles Lucien de Beurmann, Ernest Henri Besnier, Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon, Raymond Sabouraud, Camille-Melchior Gibert, Henri-Alexandre Danlos, Jean Baptiste Emile Vidal. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jean Astruc (Sauves, Auvergne, March 19, 1684 - Paris, May 5, 1766) was a professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of scripture. Astruc was the first to demonstrate using the techniques of textual analysis that were commonplace in studying the secular classics the theory that Genesis was composed based on several sources or manuscript traditions, an approach that is called the documentary hypothesis. The son of a Protestant minister who had converted to Catholicism (although the House of Astruc was of medieval Jewish origin), Astruc was educated at Montpellier, one of the great schools of medicine in early modern Europe. His dissertation and first publication, submitted when he was only 19, is on decomposition, and contains many references to recent research on the lungs by Thomas Willis and Robert Boyle. After teaching medicine at Montpellier he became a member of the medical faculty at the University of Paris. His numerous medical writings, or materials for the history of medical education at Montpellier, are now forgotten, but the work published by him anonymously in 1753 has s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=45509