Lefort, Pierre (1767-1843)

Cours analitique de mormographie thérapeutique, ou leçons sur l'art de formuler, rédigees par Mons. Lefort, docteur médecin, et écrites par Buffé le jeune, étudiant en médecine. Produced in Rennes.

1812

1 volume 2 ll. (first bl.). + 129 pp. + 60 bl. ll. 8vo. 17 x 13 cm. Original limp vellum covers with flap and tie over boards, from part of an 18th century legal document.

Purchased 1930.

The author was a French naval surgeon and obtained his M.D. in 1806, after being captured at the battle of Trafalgar. By 1808 he was a naval 'Médecin-enchef', and was again captured by the English at Genoa in 1814. Later he was sent as chief physician to Martinique, but owing to political troubles, was in New York until 1816. He later returned to Martinique and finally came back to France in 1825.

From the Berhard VI Collection.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).