Jean Astruc
Physician
Jean Astruc was a professor of medicine in France at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of... Wikipedia
Born: March 19, 1684, Sauve, France
Died: May 5, 1766 (age 82 years), Paris, France
Books: A Treatise on the Fistula of the Anus; Written Originally in Latin, by John Astruc, ... To Which are Added; Several Valuable Pieces Upon the Same Subject: ... Adorned With a Copper-plate,, A Treatise on the Diseases of Women: In Which It Is Attempted to Join a Just Theory to the Most Safe and Approved Practice: With Two Dissertations on Several Passages in the Treatise on the Diseases of Women, V 3 of 3, A Treatise on the Diseases of Women: In Which It is Attempted to Join a Just Theory to the Most Safe and Approved Practice; With a Chronological Catalogue of the Physicians Who Have Written on These Diseases; V.2, and more