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Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (physician)

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Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (July 12, 1670, in Martigues – September 10, 1752) was a French doctor and a member of the Académie de Marseille.[1]

Biography

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Jean-Baptiste Bertrand comes from a commercial family in Martigues. He studied at the Jesuit college in Marseille. His father intended him for the ecclesiastical state, but having made the acquaintance of a renowned doctor in Avignon, he turned to medicine and studied in Avignon and Montpellier. He moved to Marseille around 1707 and acquired a good reputation. During the plague of Marseilles which occurred in 1720 he devoted himself without counting towards the plague-stricken and wrote a book Relation historique de la plague  ; in this work, he shows himself to be a true precursor of microbial ideas: "The difference between our domestic insects and those of the plague is that the latter are invisible and so small that.[2] Bertrand belonged to what has been called the contagionist school, while his adversaries asserted that the disease which decimated Marseille was in no way epidemic.[3]

He was one of the founding members of the Académie de Marseille and became one of its most regular members at meetings.[4]

Works

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  • Baptiste Bertrand, Cologne, Pierre Marteau,1721[5]
  • Baptiste Bertrand, Amsterdam and Marseilles, Jean Mossy,1779[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Wikiwix Archive - Unknown page". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  2. ^ Klotz, Roger (2009-08-28). "Joseph Haïm Lunel, fabricant d'huile, maire républicain d'Alleins (Salon-de-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), vers 1820 Alleins (Bouches-du-Rhône), 21 janvier 1885)". Archives Juives. 41 (2): 133–134. doi:10.3917/aj.412.0133. ISSN 0003-9837.
  3. ^ A. W. P. (1911). "REVIEWS". The Library. s3-II (5): 112. doi:10.1093/library/s3-ii.5.112. ISSN 0024-2160.
  4. ^ Williams, M.M.R. (January 1988). "Annals of nuclear energy, its origins and its publisher—Robert Maxwell". Annals of Nuclear Energy. 15 (4): i. doi:10.1016/0306-4549(88)90009-6. hdl:2027.42/27623. ISSN 0306-4549.
  5. ^ "Medic@ - Résultats — BIU Santé, Paris". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  6. ^ "Wikiwix Archive - Unknown page". archive.wikiwix.com. Retrieved 2022-07-05.