GUILLOTIN JOSEPH-IGNACE: (1738-1814)

GUILLOTIN JOSEPH-IGNACE: (1738-1814)

Guillotin seeks additional information on

 

‘the restoration of the art of healing’

 

GUILLOTIN JOSEPH-IGNACE: (1738-1814) French physician whose name is eponymous with the guillotine, which he proposed as a device to carry out death penalties in France during the French Revolution. L.S., Guillotin, as President of the Comite de Salubrite, one page, folio, Paris, 3^rd November 1790, to the Regent Deans and Doctors of the faculty of medicine, in French. The letter states 'Le comite de salubrite ayant d'eja demande a la faculte de medecine de Paris de vouloir bien lui faire part des vues de ses membres sur la restauration de l'art de guerir, desire se procurer un complement de lumieres......Il prie en consequence M. M. Les Doyens et Docteurs Regent de la faculte de medicine de nommer un depute pour assister en leur nom a ses seances et y apporter le voeu de la compagnie sur les questions importantes dont la Comite s'occupe et sur lesquelles sera fondee la constitution medicale du Royaume' (Translation: 'The Health Committee having already asked the Faculty of Medicine of Paris to share with it the views of its members on the restoration of the art of healing, wishes to obtain additional information…..It therefore requests the Regent Deans and Doctors of the Faculty of Medicine to appoint a deputy to attend its meetings on their behalf and bring to them the demands of the company on the important questions with which the Committee is in charge of and on which will be based the medical constitution of the Kingdom'). Countersigned by Jean-Gabriel Gallot (1744-1794) French politician, secretary of the Comite de Salubrite. With blank integral leaf. VG