Antoine Vallot (born in
Arles
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in 1594 or 1595; died on 9 August 1671 at the Royal Garden in
Paris
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) was a French doctor. He was First Physician to King
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
. Antoine Vallot had succeeded
François Vautier, or Vaultier, as the king's first physician.
Antoine d'Aquin
Antoine d'Aquin (''Antonius Aquinas'') born in 1629 in Paris and died on 17 May 1696 in Vichy was a French physician. In April 1672, he became the king's first doctor in the service of Louis XIV. He was Lord and Count de Jouy-en-Josas.
The begin ...
succeeded him in 1672.
Biography
Doctor in Paris
Vallot was a doctor of the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier. Very active and bold in the practice of medicine, he moved to settle in Paris and quickly became a sought-after doctor for the great figures of the time. Vallot became the physician of
Queen Anne of Austria. In 1647 King
Louis XIV
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Vers ...
was treated of smallpox which marked the beginning of his career in the Royal Garden. He was then considered the most skillful court physician. When
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(or Vaultier) died on July 4, 1652, he was appointed to replace him in the office of first physician to the king.
First physician to the king
Vallot tells in the ''King's Health Journal'' his appointment as first physician to the king: "On Sunday, the eighth of July, one thousand six hundred and fifty-two, the king being at Saint-Denis with his army, did me the favor, after the death of M. Vaultier, to receive me in charge of first physician, having sent for me two days before from Paris, to serve his Majesty in this dignity. My letters were dispatched on the eighth of the same month, and the next day I took an oath of fidelity between the hands of His said Majesty, with a protest to employ all the lights that God has given me, all the experiences that I have acquired by long work and continual application to medicine for the space of twenty-eight years, and my own life for the preservation of such a precious life. Having received this honor by the grace of God".
Guy Patin
Guy (or Guido) Patin (1601 in Hodenc-en-Bray, Oise – 30 August 1672 in Paris) was a French doctor and man of letters.
Patin was doyen (or dean) of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris (1650–1652) and professor in the Collège de France start ...
accused Antoine Vallot of obtaining this appointment by paying 3,000
livres
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The 1262 monetary reform established the as 20 , or 80.88 gr ...
to
Cardinal Mazarin
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. In 1658, he had the opportunity to treat the king's illness in
Calais
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, where his qualities as a medical practitioner shone and where he cured the king by prescribing
emetic
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wine, an antimony preparation. Vallot, like Vaultier and the doctors of the faculty of Montpellier, was in favor of chemical medicine, while
Guy Patin
Guy (or Guido) Patin (1601 in Hodenc-en-Bray, Oise – 30 August 1672 in Paris) was a French doctor and man of letters.
Patin was doyen (or dean) of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris (1650–1652) and professor in the Collège de France start ...
and the doctors of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris were in favor of galenic medicine.
He was blamed for the death of
Henriette-Marie de France in 1669, wife of
King Charles I and daughter of
Henri IV
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.
Superintendent of the King's Garden
As first physician to the king, Vallot was in charge of the
Jardin du Roi, in
Paris
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. But it happened that when Vaultier died, the imbroglio of superintendent of the King's Garden had not yet been settled.
Publications
Vallot, d'Aquin, Fagon - ''Health journal of King Louis XIV from the year 1647 to the year 1711, with introduction, notes, critical reflections and supporting documents by JA Le Roi'' - Paris - Auguste Durand, editor - 1862
External links
* National Archives - King's Garden - Superintendents: Antoine Vallot
*Persée: François Lebrun - Doctors and empirics at the court of Louis XIV - History, economy and society - 1984 - Volume 3
References
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1590s births
1671 deaths
17th-century French physicians
People from Arles
Court physicians