MEDICINE - SURGERY - LAW - LAPEYRONIE (François... Lot 75

[MEDICINE - SURGERY - LAW] - [LAPEYRONIE (François Gigot de)] - Collection of 43 factums, published from 1732 to 1756 concerning mainly the antagonism which opposed the doctors and the surgeons of Paris of which : Recueil de pièces et mémoires pour les maîtres en l'art et science de chirurgie contre la faculté de médecine, concernant la déclaration du roi du 23 avril 1743 - Paris ; Delaguette, 1750 - Déclaration du roy, concernant la communauté des me chirurgiens de la ville de Paris donnée à Versailles, le 23 avril 1743 - [...] - Mémoire présenté au roy par son premier chirurgien : where the wisdom of the old legislation on the state of surgery in France is exposed [...] - Paris ; Delaguette, 1749 - MORAND - Discourse in which it is proved that it is necessary for the surgeon to be literate [...] - Paris ; Charles Osmont, 1743 - GIRAUDAT (Jean-Louis) - Mémoire pour le sieur François La Peyronie [...] against the Deans & Doctors-Regents of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris and against the University of Paris - Paris ; Charles Osmont, 1746 - DU MÊME - Sommaire pour le sieur Pichaut de la Martinière [...] contre les docteurs & régens de la faculté de médecine de Paris [...] - Paris ; Jacques Vincent, 1748 - LOUIS XV - New regulation for the Royal Academy of Surgery given by the king on March 18, 1751 - Paris ; Delaguette, 1751 - The collection also includes 5 pieces on the succession of Lapeyronie, who wished to donate his goods to the state, a desire against which his sister Louise d'Issert rose before the courts, 1 large volume In-4° - Wormholes at the head of the pin and wormholes on about 115 leaves, sometimes slightly affecting the text - Binding of the period in marbled tan calf (covers worn with small lacks, partial cracks in the jaws rubbed, François de Lapeyronie, 1st surgeon and confidant of Louis XV, won a decisive success in favor of surgery, by obtaining from the monarch the royal decree of April 23, 1743 by virtue of which it was henceforth necessary to be literate and provided with the degree of master of arts to aspire to the title of surgeon of Paris, sealing definitively the separation between surgeons and barbers.