GIRAUDEAU DE SAINT-GERVAIS (Jean). Born in Saint-Gervais on - Lot 71

GIRAUDEAU DE SAINT-GERVAIS (Jean). Born in Saint-Gervais on November 5, 1802, died June 2, 1861. Physician at the Faculty of Paris, member of the École pratique, the Sociétés de Géographie and de Statistique universelle, correspondent of the Société linnéenne, member of the Société des Sciences physiques et chimiques de France. Author of Cholera morbus, son origine, sa marche (1831) and Traité des maladies syphilitiques (1838). L.A.S. "Giraudeau" addressed to an unidentified correspondent. Paris, March 20, 1841. 1 p. in-4 on printed letterhead from his medical practice, rue Richer, Paris. Short but interesting professional letter in which Dr. Giraudeau de Saint-Gervais requests settlement of an account outstanding since August 1839. The doctor asks his correspondent to send him the payment together with a "statement of deliveries" made up to the date of the letter. The document bears witness to the material and administrative functioning of Parisian medical practice under the July Monarchy, when doctors frequently maintained close commercial relations with pharmacists, suppliers and colleagues. The particularly elaborate engraved letterhead recalls the practitioner's numerous scholarly and academic affiliations, revealing the prestige attached to scientific and medical societies at the time. A fine piece of 19th-century medical correspondence, with elegant, regular handwriting, preserved in good condition.