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Chronique imaginaire de la santé du Roi Louis XIV et des malades de son siècle.

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Lengelé, Benoît [UCL]

Based on contemporary medical journals, the author examines the numerous ailments that afflicted Louis XIV and underlines the impoverishment of the medical art at a time when physicians' power was sovereign and when treatments were as bizarre as they were painful. This historical journey also serves as a pretext to examine current developments in the field of microsurgery, which can cure health disorders that were considered inaccessible to anatomical and functional amelioration.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Biography, English Abstract, Historical Article, Journal Article, Portraits
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2006
Journal information "Bulletin de l'Académie nationale de médecine" - Vol. 190, no. 2, p. 499-509 (2006)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Elsevier ((Netherlands) Amsterdam)
issn 0001-4079
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - MD/MNOP - Département de morphologie normale et pathologique
UCL - (SLuc) Service de chirurgie plastique
UCL - MD/CHIR - Département de chirurgie
MESH Subject Famous Persons ; France ; History, 17th Century ; Paintings ; Portraits as Topic
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Bibliographic reference Lengelé, Benoît. Chronique imaginaire de la santé du Roi Louis XIV et des malades de son siècle.. In: Bulletin de l'Académie nationale de médecine, Vol. 190, no. 2, p. 499-509 (2006)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/10720