Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 964

ANNE CHARLES LORRY (1726-1783) Tractatus de morbis cutaneis. Apud P. Guillelmum Cavelier 1777 [4] xvi, 704 [4] pp. 24.7 cm.

Lorry studied at Paris and was the brilliant pupil and disciple of Astruc (see No. 800 ff.). Regarded as the founder of French dermatology, he was a busy practitioner and author who published on anatomy, pathology, hygiene, therapeutics, physiology, medicine, and the history of medicine. In this, his most important work, he classified skin diseases according to their etiology, physiology, and pathology rather than in the Linnean manner based on their characteristics. He was aware that all sorts of factors must be taken into consideration in order to determine the character of a skin disease and for the first time referred to the skin as a living organ. Although he emphasized the importance that one's general health has on skin diseases, he did not overlook the influence of local causes such as parasites. According to an inscription on the title page of the University of Iowa Libraries' copy, the book was awarded to Achille Cléophas Flaubert, the father of Gustave Flaubert, when he was a student at the École de Médecine in Paris.

See Related Record(s): 800

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 3983; Waller 6020; Wellcome III, p. 547

Gift of John Martin, M.D.