MEDICINE. 25 letters or documents by physicians, L.A.S., P.A - Lot 197

MEDICINE. 25 letters or documents by physicians, 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 Les Invalides, countersigned by d’Argenson; 1750, patent for Abbé Doyen’s ointment, with a beautiful 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 for a purgative), François de La Rue (Nevers 1754), Simon Letellier (1621), Louis-Jean Le Thieullier (3, 1736–1750, plus attachments), 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 from 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 are: – letters of certification in surgery from the town of Nérac for S. Bares, 1722, with 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 de Lyon (1709); – 5 notes and manuscripts (surgical treatment report, 1788; remedies…); – 3 printed works, including 2 theses (1764–1786).