Antoine Le Camus

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Antoine Le Camus (born April 12, 1722 in Paris ; † January 3, 1772 there ) was a French medic, author and journalist.

Live and act

He was the son of Nicolas Le Camus, a major des Gardes de la ville of Paris, and his wife Françoise Carbonnet.

In 1745 he was appointed docteur régent at the Faculté de médecine de Paris . In 1766 he took the chair for surgery. He was particularly interested in the medicine of the mind in the broadest sense. Le Camus sought explanations of how physical mechanisms could influence the mind.

As a doctor, Le Camus was a strong advocate of the smallpox vaccination and so in 1770 he pursued the idea of setting up a special clinic, Maison d'inoculation , in the Grand Charonne (at today's Place de la Réunion in Paris). In March 1771 the first general vaccinations were carried out. However, these were strictly rejected by parts of the population and so the administration closed its project.

Works (selection)

  • La Médecine de l'esprit. 1753
  • La Médecine pratique rendue plus simple, plus sûre et plus méthodique. 1769
  • Cover, ou l'art de conserver sa santé. 1748
  • Maison d'inoculation, letter de M. Le Camus. Quillau, 1771

Web links

Literature by and about Antoine Le Camus in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in French
  2. ↑ Joseph Fr. Michaud, Louis Gabriel Michaud: Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, ou, Histoire, par ordre alphabétique, de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs talents, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes: ouvrage entièrement neuf. Volume 6, Michaud frères, Paris 1812, p. 659
personal data
SURNAME Le Camus, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medic, author and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1772
Place of death Paris , France