bitterest and most persistent opponents of inoculation against small-pox, and made a lengthened stay in England to study the practice and its results. He wrote a ‘Dissertation on Inoculation,’ Paris, 1755, an ‘Account of Small-pox,’ Paris, 1758, and numerous Latin dissertations on medicine, besides publishing other medical treatises, and several translations of English books, lists of which are given in Eloy (see below) and ‘Nouvelle Biographie Générale,’ Paris, viii. 1855. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of London, and contributions of his are to be found in the ‘Philosophical Transactions,’ vols. xl. xli. xlii. He died at Paris 11 July 1764. [Eloy's Dict. Historique de la Médecine, Mons, 1778, i. 529; Dict. Encyclopédique des Sciences Médicales, xii. 1871.]

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