Bret, Jean Baptiste (1743-1811)

Collection of short articles, notes, extracts, scraps and oddments on infectious diseases, plague, theory of contagion, etc. Author's holograph MSS. No. 1. 'Petite vérole. Préservatifs'. (17 ll.). 2. 'Contagion. Danger. Préservatifs. Prophylaxie' [for plague]. (10 ll.). 3. 'Peste: Étude historique sur l'homme et sur les animaux'. 'Action sur les poumons, etc.' (10 ll.). [4] 5. 'Phtisie pulmonaire'. (13 ll.). 5. 'La peste. Variolette'. (24 ll.). 6. 'fièvre maligne'. (18 ll.). 7. 'La rage'. (30 ll.). 8. 'Observations médicinales' [sur la contagion] (26 ll.). 9. 'Des miasmes contagieux'. (67 ll.). 10. 'Des maladies contagieuses'. (59 ll.). 11. 'De la contagion nerveuse'. (18 ll.). 12. 'Des fièvres catharales'. (48 ll.). The date 1788 is found in No. 8 and the date 1793 in No. 12. Produced in Arles.

c. 1790

1 volume In 12 folders. v.s. Unbound, in pamphlet box. The folders are numbered 1-12, No. 5 is duplicated, and No. 4 is dropped.

Purchased 1930.

From the Berhard V 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).