Jean Adrien Helvétius

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Jean Adrien Helvétius (* 1661 or 1662 in The Hague ; † February 2, 1727 in Paris ) was a Dutch-French doctor.

Live and act

Jean Adrien Helvétius was a son of the Hague-based German-Dutch doctor Johann Friedrich Helvétius . He studied medicine at the University of Leiden . In the early 1680s he went to Paris, where he was best known for the prescription of a secret agent (the South American break-root ) against red dysentery . After the French king had also been cured by this drug, Helvétius opened the name of the secret drug in 1688 and received a reward of 1000 Louis d'or for it . He was also appointed Rittmeister ("écuyer"), royal councilor and personal physician and general supervisor of the royal hospitals in Flanders . In 1713 he bought his son Jean Claude Adrien Helvétius the title of Doctor of the King (“premier médecin du roi par quartier”).

Works (selection)

  • Traité des pertes de sang, de quelque espèce qu'elles soient, avec leur remède spécifique, nouvellement découvert par le Sieur Helvéticus, Docteur en Médecine. Accompagné de sa Lettre sur la nature & la guérison du Cancer. Laurent d'Houry, Paris 1697 (digitized version)
  • Adriani Helvetii Methodus febres omnis generis ita curandi, ut nihil ore assumendum exhibeatur. Thomas Fritschi, Leipzig 1694
  • Remèdes contre la peste. PA le Mercier, Paris 1721 (digitized version)
  • Traité Des Maladies Les Plus Frequentes, Et Des Remedes Propres A Les Guerir. Nouvelle edition. Le Mercier, Paris 1727 (1st edition 1707) Volume I (digitized version) . Volume II (digitized version)
    • Johann Gottfried Rieger (translator). Treatise of the Diseases Most Occurring, and the Manner of Happily Currying Them. Augsburg 1778 (digitized version)

literature

  • Jocher's lexicon of scholars (1750). Volume 2, p. 1476 (digitized version) also cited in: Rieger 1778 (digitized version)
  • Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biography médicale. CLF Panckoucke, Paris 1822. Volume 5, pp. 152–153 (digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Helvétius, Jean Adrien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch-French doctor
DATE OF BIRTH 1661 or 1662
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1727
Place of death Paris