Anne-Charles Lorry

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Anne-Charles Lorry

Anne-Charles Lorry (born October 10, 1726 in Crosne , † September 18, 1783 in Bourbonne-les-Bains ) was a French doctor.

Live and act

As the son of François Lorry, a respected professor in the law faculty at Paris University, Anne-Charles Lorry received an excellent education, which was directed by Charles Rollin . In his medical training, he mainly heard the lectures of Jean Astruc and Antoine Ferrein . He received his doctorate in Paris in 1748 and soon had a practice that was visited by prominent patients.

Lorry's main work is his treatise on skin diseases ("Tractatus de morbis cutaneis" 1777). He tried to resolve the chaos in the classification of skin diseases and divided the skin diseases into two main groups:

  1. A group with skin symptoms that arise from the expulsion of a pollutant that is latent in the organism, with two subgroups that differ in whether the condition affects all parts of the body or only certain parts of the body.
  2. A group with skin diseases that arise in the skin itself, with two subgroups that differ in whether the condition occurs anywhere on the skin or in specific parts of the body.

Lorry had long had repeated attacks of gout. In 1780, a stroke forced him to give up his practice. He looked in vain for a cure in Bourbonne-les-Bains.

Works (selection)

As editor:

  • Jean Astruc. Memories for the history of the Faculté of the Montpellier Médecine. G. Cavelier, Paris 1767 (digitized version) In this book, Lorry has supplemented the extensive material that Astruc had collected about the medical faculty and added an Astruc biography.
  • Sanctorii de medicina statica aphorismi . Paris 1770 (digitized version)

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personal data
SURNAME Lorry, Anne-Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1726
PLACE OF BIRTH Crosne
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1783
Place of death Bourbonne-les-Bains