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.

One of his brothers, Honoré du Laurens (1564-1612), was archbishop of Embrun.

Bibliography

Selection

• Admonitio ad Simonem Petræum (1593)^[5]
• Discours de la conservation de la veuë: des maladies melancoliques: des catarrhes, & de la vieillesse (1594)
  • 1598 and 1600 editions on Gallica; Radu Suciu's edition with an extensive critical apparatus (2012)^[6]
  • A discourse of the preservation of the sight of melancholike diseases of rheumes and of old age by Andre DuLaurens, translated by Richard Surphlet (1599)—The eyehistory.wordpress.com digitization includes only the first discourse.
• Apologia pro Galeno et impugnatio novæ ac falsæ demonstrationis de communione vasorum cordis in foetu (1595)^[7]
• De crisibus libri tres (1596)^[8]
• Historia anatomica humani corporis. Paris (1600)^[9]
  • 1602 edition on Google Books
  • L’histoire anatomique en laquelle toutes les parties du corps humain sont amplement déclarées enrichie de controverses et observations nouvelles, translated by Francois Size. Paris: Jean Bertault (1610)
  • Historia anatomica: controuersiis, obseruationibus et posterioribus curis authoris adornata (1650)—With additions by Lazare Meyssonnier.

Complete works

• Toutes les œuvres de Me André Du Laurens, sieur de Ferrières. Paris, 1621 on Google Books (in French)—Translation by Théophile Gelée, at least partly revised by the author.^[10]
• Patin, Gui, ed., Opera omnia, partim iam antea excusa, partim nondum edita, nunc simil collecta, & ad infinitis mendis repurgata at Google Books (1628) (in Latin)—Complete revised works, some not published before.

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 XVI^e 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

External links

• List of online works on Gallica