LAENNEC René [Quimper, 1781 - manor of Ploaré, 1826], French - Lot 327

LAENNEC René [Quimper, 1781 - manor of Ploaré, 1826], French physician. Autograph letter signed to his father. Paris, 4 germinal XI (25 March 1803); 2 pages 1/3 in-4°. Beautiful letter from a son to his "dear father", the Breton lawyer and magistrate Théophile-Marie Laennec, telling him about his studies and his first scientific researches. From Paris, where he is finishing his medical studies, he announces that his brother Michaud has obtained the that his brother Michaud had obtained the position of secretary to the prefect of Oise, but that he himself was in a but that he himself was in a precarious situation, obliged to move and owing money to the tax authorities and for his accommodation. One of his one of his friends has lent him money, but he has to pay it back quickly. He asks his father the diamond, acknowledges receipt of the blankets, sheets, towels and books for his brother, and books for his brother, and then in a postscript gives him news of his scientific work: "I will send you a scientific work: "I will send you a memorandum that I have just done on new membranes and among others on a membrane that I have I will send you a report I have just made on new membranes and among others on a membrane I have found in the liver. These occupations are not as cheerful as letters, but they are likely to letters, but they are likely to excite as much enthusiasm. I have done most of this dissertation in I have done most of this memoir in vigils (so the style is a bit rushed) and I assure you that I have never felt so strongly I can assure you that I never felt as strongly aroused as when I was writing it.