Felix Vicq-d'Azyr Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS C 286

Collection Summary

Letter and notes. Includes anatomical drawings. Two items lack dates.

Dates

Creation: 1778-1784

Extent

0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)

Creator

Vicq-d'Azyr, Felix (Person)

Physical Location

Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

Language of Materials

Collection materials primarily in French

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Biographical Note

Felix Vicq-d'Azyr, 1748-1794, was a medical educator, anatomist, and epidemiologist. A member of the Academie Francaise, the Academie des Sciences, and secretary of the Societe Royale de Medecine, Vicq-d'Azyr was particularly interested in comparative anatomy and veterinary medicine. He developed methods for fighting epizootic disease that established his reputation as a pioneer in public health.

Vicq-d'Azyr wrote Quaestio medica ... An similis vegetantium et animantium generandi modus? (1775), Recueil d'observations sur les differentes methodes proposees pour guerir la maladie epidemique qui attaque les betes a cornes (1775), Expose des moyens curatifs et preservatifs qui peuvent etre employes contre les maladies pestilentielles des betes a cornes (1776), Quaestio medica ... An aether hemicraniae nervosae? (1778), and Traite d'anatomie et de physiologie (1786).