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JEAN ASTRUC (1684-1766)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 820 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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