Article ID: CBB000056523

La Mettrie's Institutions de médecine: A reinterpretation of the Boerhaavian legacy (1985)

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Description “The eight-volume edition of Boerhaave's Institutions...is the critical text for understanding La Mettrie's development as a médecin/philosophe...In 1749-50 La Mettrie republished the Institutions in an edition expanded by six volumes of his own commentary...La Mettrie used the commentary to distinguish his own medical views from those of Boerhaave.”


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Authors & Contributors
Wellman, Kathleen Anne
Principe, Lawrence M.
Didier Contadini
Verbeek, Theo
Thomson, Ann
Rosenfield, Leonora Cohen
Journals
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Janus: revue internationale de l'histoire des sciences, de la medecine, de la pharmacie et de la technique
Gesnerus
Dix-huitième siècle
Publishers
University of California, Los Angeles
Springer
Science History Publications
Rodopi
Mimesis
Erasmus Publishing
Concepts
Medicine
Chemistry
Human physiology
Philosophy
Alchemy
Materialism
People
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de
Boerhaave, Herman
Haller, Albrecht von
Stahl, Georg Ernst
Quesnay, François
Pitcairne, Archibald
Time Periods
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
Enlightenment
19th century
17th century
Places
France
Germany
Leiden (Netherlands)
Edinburgh
Netherlands
Sweden
Institutions
Universiteit Leiden
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