André du Laurens (December 9, 1558 – August 6, 1609), was a French physician.

Biography

Du Laurens was born in

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and was rector of the medical school at

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. He was physician to King Henry IV. His 1594 book comprising four "discourses"—first written in French, not Latin—was an early attempt at

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. It was translated into English by Richard Surphlet in 1599. His ''Historia anatomica'' underwent many editions. One of his brothers, Honoré du Laurens (1564-1612), was

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Bibliography

Selection

* ''Admonitio ad Simonem Petræum'' (1593) * ''Discours de la conservation de la veuë: des maladies melancoliques: des catarrhes, & de la vieillesse'' (1594) *
1598
an
1600
editions on Gallica; Radu Suciu's edition with an extensive critical apparatus (2012) *
''A discourse of the preservation of the sight of melancholike diseases of rheumes and of old age'' by Andre DuLaurens, translated by Richard Surphlet (1599)
��The eyehistory.wordpress.com digitization includes only the first discourse. * ''Apologia pro

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o et impugnatio novæ ac falsæ demonstrationis de communione vasorum cordis in foetu'' (1595) * ''De crisibus libri tres'' (1596) *
Historia anatomica humani corporis
'. Paris (1600) *
1602 edition
on

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**
L’histoire anatomique en laquelle toutes les parties du corps humain sont amplement déclarées enrichie de controverses et observations nouvelles
', translated by Francois Size. Paris: Jean Bertault (1610) *
''Historia anatomica: controuersiis, obseruationibus et posterioribus curis authoris adornata''
(1650)—With additions by Lazare Meyssonnier.

Complete works

''Toutes les œuvres de Me André Du Laurens, sieur de Ferrières''
Paris, 1621 on

—Translation by Théophile Gelée, at least partly revised by the author.Correspondence between the translator and the author
and following pages. * Patin, Gui, ed., (1628) —Complete revised works, some not published before.

References

* Berriot-Salvadore, Évelyne (2008), "Les œuvres françaises d'André Dulaurens", ''Esculape et Dionysos. Mélanges en l'honneur de Jean Céard'', Genève: Droz, p. 243–254. * —Jeanne is André's sister. * * Wear, A. (1983), "William Harvey and the “way of the anatomists”", ''History of Science'', 21, p. 227–230

External links

List
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