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Surgery. Professional Recognition of Surgeons. Two documents. 1746-1779
Arret du Conseil d'Etat du Roi, Qui ordonne le payment de Gages & Rentes appartenans a differentes Communautes de Chirurgiens. Du 11 Decembre 1779. Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1779 4to. 262x206 mm. Pp. 2, 2 blanks. Illustrated headpiece with Crown and Lilies of France. Good condition.
First edition. This decree constitutes one of the first government acts aimed at the professional recognition of surgeons, who at the time were still a heterogeneous body and often in contrast with doctors, university graduates, despite the fact that it had already been created in Paris in 1731 by Georges Mareschal , first surgeon of Louis XV, the Academie Royale de Chirurgie.
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Edit du Roi, Portant suppression des vingt-cinq Offices d'Inspecteurs & Controleurs creex dans la communaute des Barbiers-perruquiers de Paris... donne a Versailles au mois d'Avril 1746.Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 17464to. 253x195 mm. Pages 4. Illustrated woodcut headpiece with allegory and symbols of barbers. Good condition.
First edition. This edict concerning barbers-hairdressers, who still practiced surgery and folk medicine, was issued at the suggestion of the eminent surgeon François La Peyronien, 1678 - 1747, who was the first surgeon and confidant of King Louis XV. The beautiful allegorical headpiece depicts a seated woman with one eye on her chest, next to her two rods of Asclepius, symbol of medicine.
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