Antoine Petit Explained

Antoine Petit
Native Name Lang:fra
Birth Date:23 July 1722
Birth Place:Orléans (France)
Death Place:Olivet (France)
Fields:Anatomy, surgery and childbirth
Workplaces:Jardin du Roi, University of Paris
Alma Mater:University of Paris
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Thesis Year:1746
Known For:several articles for the Diderot and d'Alembert Encyclopédie
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Antoine Petit (23 July 1722  - 21 October 1794) was a French physician, master of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and Félix Vicq d'Azyr.

Biography

Antoine Petit, born in Orléans, was the son of a tailor.He received a disciplined education and, after studying at the Orléans college, he took up the study of medicine at the University of Paris where he received his doctorate in 1746.[1]

Soon he became a good teacher and lecturer in anatomy, surgery and childbirth.[2]

The accuracy of his diagnosis made him famous and he had a very busy practice, drawing people from every part of France, even from other parts of Europe.[3]

He was appointed anatomy professor at Jardin du Roi from 1769 to 1778. In the University of Paris, he founded a chair of anatomy[4] then a chair of surgery. The professors, engaged and appointed by the University, had to teach for ten years then made way for younger. He was a member of French Academy of Sciences and wrote several articles for the Diderot and d'Alembert Encyclopédie.[5]

Antoine Petit amassed a significant wealth then, because he had no child, spent a part to found places that accord medical treatment. He spent more than 100,000 French livres to Orléans city: he appointed four physicians and two surgeons for free health care for sick people and those in every kind of need, in a house he built in this purpose.[1] On market days, they took care of those from the country.

In the same way, he appointed two lawyers and a prosecutor who involved towards the poor.[6]

In Fontenay-aux-Roses, he donated a building to house the municipality medical officer.

He died in Olivet, on 1794.

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  1. Web site: Gourdol . Jean-Yves . Antoine Petit . 20 April 2013 . French . 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130603030845/http://www.medarus.org/Medecins/MedecinsTextes/petit_antoine.htm . 3 June 2013 .
  2. Un cours de médecine d'Antoine Petit en 1768
  3. Web site: Eloge d'Antoine Petit, docteur-régent de la Faculté de médecine en la ci-devant Université de Paris. chez Gueffier. 20 April 2013. Paris. French. 1797.
  4. Web site: Vicq d'Azyr et la Révolution française. 20 April 2013. Jean-Jacques Peumery. French. 2001.
  5. http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rde_0769-0886_1990_num_8_1_1057 Kafker, Frank A.: Notices sur les auteurs des 17 volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie (suite et fin). Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année (1990) Volume 8 Numéro 8 p. 110
  6. Book: Larousse, Pierre. Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle : français, historique, géographique, mythologique, bibliographique.... T. 12. 20 April 2013. Bibliothèque nationale de France. 715. French. pdf. 1866–1877.