Julien Busson

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Julien Busson (born May 11, 1717 in Dinan , Bretagne , † January 7, 1781 ) was a French doctor during the French Enlightenment , docteur des Lumières .

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Julien Busson was born in Dinan to a merchant family. First, he began studying theology to qualify for the priesthood. But he soon broke off his training as a priest and turned to studying medicine in Paris . In 1742 he received his doctorate at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, Faculté de médecine de Paris on the subject of Quaestio medica chirurgica. An absque membranae apertura topica injici in concham possint (1748).

Then he entered the service of Duchess Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon . She arranged a marriage to one of her former bridesmaids . Julien Busson should have had an amazing memory and served as personal physician to operate the Duchess. He was appointed doctor-regent de la faculté de medecine .

Robert James wrote around 1740 a multi-volume English lexicon A medicinal dictionary, including physics, surgery, anatomy, chemistry and botany (1743-1745). Busson revised, corrected and improved the now combined to form a six-volume work, and with the French title Dictionnaire universel de médicine provided technical dictionary . This work was translated into French between 1746 and 1748 by Denis Diderot , François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous and proofread by Busson. In the foreword to the French translation, avertissement de l'éditeur , Busson wrote that the lexicon was also expressly written for the medical layperson who could seek advice if, for example, no doctor was on hand.

Health problems caused Julien Busson to move to Rennes , where he could "breathe the air of his home country", respirer l'air natal and relax.

Julien Busson died January 7, 1781, at the age of 64.

Works (selection)

  • Quaestio medica chirurgica. An absque membranae apertura topica injici in concham possint. (1748)
  • An cibus deterior, sed juncundus & assuetus, meliori sed ingrato & inassueto, potior? Heerkens, Paris (1754)

literature

  • Ulrich Johannes Schneider: The Invention of General Knowledge: Encyclopedic Writing in the Age of Enlightenment. Oldenbourg Akademieverlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 3-05-005780-7 , p. 186

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph François Michaud : Biography universelle ancienne et modern: histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes. Paris, Michaud frères, tome 6, 1812, pp. 372-373.
  2. Elizabeth A. Williams: A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier. The History of Medicine in Context. Ashgate Publishing Limited 2003, ISBN 0-7546-0881-6 , p. 121
  3. Les docteurs de la mine. Julien Busson, "docteur des Lumières".