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CHIRAC PIERRE (1650-1732) MÉDECIN.
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CHIRAC PIERRE (1650-1732) MÉDECIN.
L.A., Montpellier March 3, 1695, [to Michel BÉGON]| 3 pages in-4 (tiny wormhole). L.A., Montpellier March 3, 1695, [to Michel BÉGON]| 3 pages in-4 (tiny wormhole).
Very rare and curious medical letter from the First Physician of Louis XV and superintendent of the Jardin des Plantes
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He is very comfortable that the monster has fallen into Begon's hands, and he asks for details about the inside of the body after the autopsy. "Although the number of such observations is quite large, almost all of those who have made them have been content to describe the monsters in relation to their extraordinary figures, and few have endeavoured to describe their interiors accurately, and especially the disposition of the large vessels, which is without difficulty the most important observation that must be made in these cases to shed light on the matter of the monsters, which has been treated very badly up to now. Speaking of monsters I will tell you by return that one of our Thresoriers of France who is very hairy rubbing his arm these days spends the night, he saw it while it was on fire and surprised him a lot and he sent me the next day to pray to come and see him believing that he was very bad. Out of curiosity, I wanted to tell him nothing before telling him to know the real thing, so I closed the windows and made him rub his arm in his bed and he saw a glow similar to that of the phosphorus of Angler. After I had disabused him of the pain he was in, he was told that it was a very natural effect and that he was no more to be feared for his sake than the sparks that come out of cats when they are rubbed on their thorns in the dark. ...I think there are a lot of people who would have something like this happen to them if they looked into it". It reminds him of a passage from Virgil "where he speaks of certain flames that adorned the head of the young Ascanius", as well as of the pages of Livy and other historians "where mention is made of certain flames th
L.A., Montpellier March 3, 1695, [to Michel BÉGON]| 3 pages in-4 (tiny wormhole). L.A., Montpellier March 3, 1695, [to Michel BÉGON]| 3 pages in-4 (tiny wormhole).
Very rare and curious medical letter from the First Physician of Louis XV and superintendent of the Jardin des Plantes
.
He is very comfortable that the monster has fallen into Begon's hands, and he asks for details about the inside of the body after the autopsy. "Although the number of such observations is quite large, almost all of those who have made them have been content to describe the monsters in relation to their extraordinary figures, and few have endeavoured to describe their interiors accurately, and especially the disposition of the large vessels, which is without difficulty the most important observation that must be made in these cases to shed light on the matter of the monsters, which has been treated very badly up to now. Speaking of monsters I will tell you by return that one of our Thresoriers of France who is very hairy rubbing his arm these days spends the night, he saw it while it was on fire and surprised him a lot and he sent me the next day to pray to come and see him believing that he was very bad. Out of curiosity, I wanted to tell him nothing before telling him to know the real thing, so I closed the windows and made him rub his arm in his bed and he saw a glow similar to that of the phosphorus of Angler. After I had disabused him of the pain he was in, he was told that it was a very natural effect and that he was no more to be feared for his sake than the sparks that come out of cats when they are rubbed on their thorns in the dark. ...I think there are a lot of people who would have something like this happen to them if they looked into it". It reminds him of a passage from Virgil "where he speaks of certain flames that adorned the head of the young Ascanius", as well as of the pages of Livy and other historians "where mention is made of certain flames th