Raymond Vieussens

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Raymond Vieussens (* 1641 in a village in the province of Rouergue , † August 16, 1715 in Montpellier ) was a French anatomist .

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Vieussens initially received a humanistic training in a Jesuit college in Rodez and then studied medicine in Montpellier. There he received his doctorate in 1670. From 1671 he practiced and researched in Montpellier as a doctor at the Hospital Saint-Eloi , where he carried out about 500 sections over ten years. His main focus was on the research of the nervous system and the cardiovascular system, whereby he was able to rely on the preliminary work of the English doctor Thomas Willis . In 1684 he published his main work, the "Neurographia universalis".

1685 took him to the " Académie des Sciences ".

In 1688 he was elected a member of the Royal Society .

In Paris he was the personal physician of the Duchess of Montpensier from 1690 to 1693 .

In 1693, after the Duchess's death, he returned to Montpellier and resumed his position as a doctor in the Saint-Eloi Hospital . At the same time, he resumed his studies, initially working on issues in the field of biochemistry . He tried to isolate an "acid salt" from the blood, believed to be successful, and reported publicly in Montpellier about his discovery. Pierre Chirac stood up among the audience and claimed to have represented "acidic salt" in the blood even before Vieussens. This led to a priority dispute that damaged the reputation of both doctors.

Works

  • Neurographia universalis. Johann Certe, Lyon 1684 (digitized version ) Georg Wilhelm Kühn, Frankfurt 1690 (digitized version )
  • Tractatus duo. Primus de remotis & proximis mixti principiis, in ordine ad corpus humanum, spectatis. Secundus, de natura, differentiis, conditionibus, & causis fermentationis, in quo praecipua, quae in ipsa fermentatione observantur phaenomena, explicantur. Lyon 1688
  • Epistola de sanguinis humani cum sale fixo, spiritum acidum suggerente, tum volatili, in certa proportione sanguinis phlegma, spiritum subrufum ac oleum foetidum ingrediente, nec non de bilis usu: ad Facultatem Medicam Lipsiensem perscripta, una cum huius respono. Joh. Ludwig Gleditsch, Leipzig 1698 (digitized version)
  • Novum vasorum corporis humani systema. Paul Marret, Amsterdam 1705 (digitized)
  • Dissertatio anatomica de structura et usu uteri ac placentae muliebris. 1712.
  • Traité nouveau de la structure de l'oreille. Jean Guillemette, Toulouse 1714 (digitized version)
  • Traité nouveau des liqueurs du corps humain. Jean Guillemette, Toulouse 1715 (digitized volume II)
  • Traité nouveau de la structure et des causes du mouvement naturel du coeur. Jean Guillemette, Toulouse 1715 (digitized version)

literature

  • Jean Astruc . Memories for the history of the medical faculty in Montpellier. PG Cavelier, Paris 1767, pp. 389–393 (digitized version )
  • Dictionnaire des sciences médicales. Biography médicale. Volume 7, Panckoucke, Paris 1825, pp. 433–435 (digitized version )
  • Ernst Julius Gurlt and August Hirsch . Biographical lexicon of the outstanding doctors of all times and peoples. Volume VI, Urban & Schwarzenberg, Vienna and Leipzig 1888, pp. 111–112 (digitized version )
  • E. Podolsky: Raymond Vieussens and the affairs of the heart. In: J Maine Med Assoc. 51, 1960 Oct, pp. 362-366.
  • Raymond de Vieussens (1641-1715), French neuroanatomist and physician. In. JAMA. 206, 1968, pp. 1785-1786.
  • Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Vieussens, Raymond. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1443.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Vieussens, Raymond (c 1635 - 1715) in the archive of the Royal Society , London
  2. ↑ Pierre Chirac. Lettre ou réflexions préliminaires sur l'apologie de Monsieur Vieussens et sur la préface qui la précède . Montpellier 1698 (digitized version ) Raymond Vieussens. Réponse du Sr Vieussens docteur en médecine de la faculté de Montpellier, à trois lettres imprimées du Sieur Chirac Professeur de medecine de l'université de la même ville. Honoré Pech, Montpellier 1698 (digitized version)
  3. ↑ Jean Astruc ( Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la faculté de médecine de Montpellier , p. 390 (digitized version) ) suspected in 1767 that Vieussens was influenced by his friend Pierre-Sylvain Régis , who was in Paris at the time, when writing this work the philosophy taught by Descartes .

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personal data
SURNAME Vieussens, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French anatomist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1635
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1715
Place of death Montpellier