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.
| Bibliographic reference |
Lengelé, Benoît. [Imaginary chronicle of Louis XIV's ailments and contemporary illnesses]. In: Academie Nationale de Medecine. Bulletin, Vol. 190, no. 2, p. 499-509 (2006) |
| Permanent URL |
http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/38302 |
