Henri Gras

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Henri Gras (* towards the end of the 16th century in Lausanne , † May 22, 1665 in Lyon ) was a French doctor .

Life

Henri Gras was the son of the merchant Jean Gras, who fled from Lyon to Lausanne in Switzerland during the Wars of Religion . Henri Gras received an excellent education in his youth and then studied medicine at the University of Montpellier . In Lyon he was accepted into the medical faculty.

Gras devoted himself in particular to the medical literature and published unpublished writings of other doctors. Among other things, he obtained an edition of the works of his teacher Jean de Varanda ( Opera omnia theorica et practica , Geneva 1620; new edition Lyon 1658), which he dedicated to Pierre de Maridat von Lye, member of the great council in Paris . He also made known the long-lost monograph by Antoine de Saporta , a professor and chancellor at Montpellier , about unnatural tumors , from the papers of his colleague François Ranchin ( De tumoribus praeter naturam , Lyon 1624). He also collected Ranchin's smaller, scattered treatises ( Opuscula medica utili jucundaque rerum varietate referta , Lyon 1627).

Gras died in Lyon on May 22, 1665. He was a bibliophile and left a library of around 4,000 precious books. His contemporaries described him as a learned man, but also as a sullen eccentric who was difficult to get along with.

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personal data
SURNAME Gras, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1665
Place of death Lyon