{"id":1525,"date":"2009-10-13T15:10:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T21:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2009-10-13T15:10:56","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T21:10:56","slug":"notes-from-the-rare-book-room-histoire-de-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2009\/10\/13\/notes-from-the-rare-book-room-histoire-de-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the Rare Book Room &#8220;Histoire de medicine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/10\/leclerc002-small.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/10\/leclerc001-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1526\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/10\/leclerc001-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/10\/leclerc001-small.jpg 399w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/10\/leclerc001-small-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size: 12pt;line-height: 114%\" lang=\"en-US\">Daniel Le Clerc<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size: 12pt;line-height: 114%\" lang=\"en-US\"> (1652-1728). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size: 12pt;line-height: 114%;font-style: italic\" lang=\"en-US\">Histoire de la m\u00e9decine.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size: 12pt;line-height: 114%\" lang=\"en-US\"> Nouvelle ed. Amsterdam: Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1723. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size: 12pt;line-height: 114%\" lang=\"en-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10pt;line-height: 114%\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Swiss physician, <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Daniel <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Le Clerc was born at Geneva and studied medicine at Montpellier and Paris. He received the M.D. degree at Valencia in 1670 and returned to Geneva to enter private practice. Although successful as a physician, and later as a politician, Le Clerc expended great energy in writing and scholarship. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/10\/leclerc002-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1527\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/10\/leclerc002-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/10\/leclerc002-small.jpg 433w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/files\/2009\/10\/leclerc002-small-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Considered by many authorities to be the father of the history of medicine, Le Clerc is best known for his monumental <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\" lang=\"en-US\">Histoire de la m\u00e9d<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\" lang=\"en-US\">i<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic\" lang=\"en-US\">cine<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">. The first edition was published in 1696 and, after the second edition had been exhausted, Le Clerc found it expedient to write a third edition, which he updated to the middle of the seventeenth century. Most striking is his inclusion of ten finely executed engravings depicting various personalities associated with medical history<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Daniel Le Clerc (1652-1728). Histoire de la m\u00e9decine. Nouvelle ed. Amsterdam: Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1723. Swiss physician, Daniel Le Clerc was born at Geneva and studied medicine at Montpellier and Paris. He received the M.D. degree at Valencia in 1670 and returned to Geneva to enter private practice. Although successful as a physician,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/2009\/10\/13\/notes-from-the-rare-book-room-histoire-de-medicine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Notes from the Rare Book Room &#8220;Histoire de medicine&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/hardin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}