Boirat ( -1790)

Mémoire sur certains abus à réformer (dans la ville de Riom, au point de vue médical.) Produced in Riom.

c. 1775

1 volume 2 ll. + 6 ll. + 2 bl. ll. 4to. 24 x 18 cm. Modern boards.

Purchased 1929.

Author's holograph MS, with many corrections. As a physician he complains that the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul in Riom were treating the sick, though without being qualified by medical training. He proposed the establishment of a Medical School: and that there should be a physician appointed for each 'Quartier', chosen from the senior doctors in the town, to each of whom a younger man should be attached, later to succeed him. The letter from M. l'Intendant de Chazerat to Boirat 1779, which is mentioned on the second leaf is wanting.

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).