Jean Claude Adrien Helvétius

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Jean Claude Adrien Helvétius (born July 18, 1685 in Paris , † July 17, 1755 there ) was a French doctor.

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Jean Claude Adrien Helvétius was the son of the doctor Jean Adrien Helvétius (1662-1727). In 1708 he received his medical doctorate in Paris. In 1713 his father bought him the title of doctor of the king ("premier médecin du roi par quartier"). In gratitude for the successful treatment of the king , he was appointed Councilor of State ("conseiller d'État"), inspector general of the hospitals and doctor of the queen . His son was the doctor-philosopher Claude Adrien Helvétius .

Helvetius had a dispute with the doctor Jean Besse about passages from his work "Idée générale de l'économie animale." In it, Helvetius had claimed that inflammation would occur when the blood passed through the lymphatic vessels. Besse stated that Helvetius took this thesis from Boerhaave's works without quoting him. Incidentally, inflammation occurs due to clogging of the blood capillaries.

He was a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

Works (selection)

literature

  • Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biography médicale. CLF Panckoucke , Paris 1822. Volume 5, pp. 153–154 (digitized version )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biography médicale. Volume 2, Panckoucke, Paris 1820, pp. 219–220 (digitized version )
  2. ↑ Jean Besse. Lettre à Monsieur ... (Helvétius) author du nouveau livre de l'oeconomie animale et des observations sur les petites véroles. François Fournier, Paris 1723 (digitized version)
  3. ^ Jean Claude Adrien Helvétius. Lettres à M. au sujet de la Lettre critique de M. Besse, contre l'Idée général de l 'Oeconomie Animale et les observations sur la petite vérole. Paris 1725 (digitized version)
  4. ↑ Jean Besse. Replique aux lettres de Mr Helvetius, au sujet de la critique de son livre de l'oeconomie animale & des observations sur la petite verole. Amsterdam 1726 Volume I (digitized version)
  5. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter H. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 26, 2019 (French).

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SURNAME Helvétius, Jean Claude Adrien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1685
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH July 17, 1755
Place of death Paris