André du Laurens

André du Laurens (December 9, 1558 August 6, 1609), was a French physician.

André du Laurens

Biography

Du Laurens was born in Tarascon[1] and was rector of the medical school at Montpellier.[2] He was physician to King Henry IV.

His 1594 book comprising four "discourses"—first written in French, not Latin—was an early attempt at scientific communication.[3] It was translated into English by Richard Surphlet in 1599.[2][4]

His Historia anatomica underwent many editions.

Bibliography

Selection

Complete works

References

  1. Jeanne du Laurens, p. 41
  2. Thiher, Chapter 3
  3. Évelyne Berriot-Salvadore, p. 247
  4. Italian translation by Giovanni Germano in 1626 (SUDOC record). Latin translation by Johann Theodor Schönlein, 1618
  5. Nicolas Joseph François Éloy, "Du Laurens (André)", p. 108. Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et moderne, vol. 2, Mons:Hoyois (1778)
  6. Du Laurens, André; Suciu, Radu, ed., Discours des maladies mélancoliques. Klincksieck, 2012
  7. SUDOC record
  8. Refer to Galen's book with the same title.
  9. A preliminary version, Opera anatomica, was published in 1593. (On Google Books)
  10. Correspondence between the translator and the author and following pages.
  • Berriot-Salvadore, Évelyne (2008), "Les œuvres françaises d'André Dulaurens", Esculape et Dionysos. Mélanges en l'honneur de Jean Céard, Genève: Droz, p. 243–254.
  • Du Laurens, Jeanne (1868), de Ribbe, Charles (ed.), Une famille au XVIe siècle (3rd ed.), Paris: Joseph Albanel—Jeanne is André's sister.
  • Thiher, Allen (2005), Revels in Madness: Insanity in Medicine and Literature, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 0-472-08999-4
  • Wear, A. (1983), "William Harvey and the “way of the anatomists”", History of Science, 21, p. 227–230
  • List of online works on Gallica
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