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See also:BARTHEZ, or BARTHES, See also:PAUL See also:JOSEPH (1734-1806)
, See also:French physician, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:December 1734 at See also:Montpellier
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He was educated at See also:Narbonne and See also:Toulouse, and began the study of See also:medicine at Montpellier in 1750, taking his See also:doctor's degree in 1753
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In 1756 he obtained the See also:appointment of physician to the military See also:hospital in See also:Normandy attached to the See also:army of observation commanded by See also:Marshal d'See also:Estrees, but a severe attack of hospital See also:fever compelled him to leave this See also:post
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In 1757 his services were required in the medical See also:staff of the army of See also:Westphalia, where he had the See also:rank of consulting physician, and on his return to See also:Paris he acted as See also:joint editor of the See also:Journal See also:des savants and the Encyclopedie methodique
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In 1759 he obtained a medical professorship at Montpellier, and in 1774 he was created joint See also:chancellor of the university
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In 1778 he published his most famous See also:work, Nouveaux elemens de la See also:science de l'homme, in which he employs the expression " vital principle " as a convenient See also:term for the cause of the phenomena of See also:life, without committing himself to either a spiritualistic or a materialistic view of its nature
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Taking the degree of doctor of See also:civil See also:law in 1780, he secured the appointment of counsellor to the Supreme See also:Court of See also:Aids at Montpellier, but he soon took up his See also:residence in Paris, having been nominated consulting physician to the See also: Lordat, who published two volumes of his Consultations de medecine in 181o . His Traite du beau was also published posthumously in 1807 . |
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