See also:JEAN See also:ASTRUC (1684-1766)
, See also:French physician and Biblical critic, was See also:born on the 19th of See also:March 1684 at Sauve, in See also:Languedoc
.
He graduated in See also:medicine at See also:Montpellier 'in 1703, and in 1710 he was appointed to the See also:chair of See also:anatomy at See also:Toulouse, which he retained till 1717, when he became See also:professor of medicine at Montpellier
.
Subsequently he was appointed successively See also:superintendent of the See also:mineral See also:waters of Languedoc (1721), first physician to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Poland (1729), and regius professor of medicine at See also:Paris (1731)
.
He died on the 5th of May 1766 at Paris
.
Of his numerous See also:works, that on which his fame principally rests is the See also:treatise entitled De Morbis Venereis libri See also:sex, 1736
.
In addition to other medical works he published anonymously Conjectures sur See also:les memoires originaux dont it parait que Moyse s'est servi pour composer le livre de la Genese, (1753), in which he pointed out that two See also:main See also:sources can be traced in the See also:book of See also:Genesis; and two, See also:dissertations on the immateriality and See also:immortality, of the soul, 1755
.
See Hauck, Realencyk. f
.
Prot
.
Theol., 1897, vol. ii. pp
.
162-170
.
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