René-Théophile LAENNEC (1781-1826). L.A.S., Paris 13 fructid - Lot 230

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René-Théophile LAENNEC (1781-1826). L.A.S., Paris 13 fructid - Lot 230
René-Théophile LAENNEC (1781-1826). L.A.S., Paris 13 fructidor XII (August 31, 1804), to his father Théophile Laennec, lawyer in Quimper; 3 pages in-4, address (small holes in the seal). Beautiful letter to his father about his beginnings at the Société de Médecine. He has just been appointed "deputy to the society of the school of medicine", in charge of public instruction and also "of the conservation and the aggrandissement of medical sciences in France". In this capacity, she gathers "the papers, titles and memoirs of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, of the Royal Society of Medicine established by Louis XV in the same city and of the Royal Academy of Surgery, so that she could continue the work of these famous bodies, which the revolution had destroyed. Faced with the extent of the work, the professors asked for the nomination of several assistants among the young doctors. The following have already been appointed: "Messrs Larrey, chief surgeon of the Egyptian army, Husson and Moreau, sub-librarians of the school, Roux, private professor of anatomy", Bayle, Giraud, Geffroy "and myself". This only brings "honor, and a jetton worth two francs and fifty cents for each session attended. When I have grown a little older in society, I will send a purse to my mother to be used for her game of Boston or reversis. He hopes to earn a little more money soon: "I had started working for a certain scholar who doesn't do his own books," but it was taking too much of his time. "I am determined to live as a medical student, until I finish the treatise on pathological anatomy on which I am working with Bayle"... He sees some patients in town and is owed some money; he keeps track of the sums he has been lent and that his father has sent him...
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