Autograph letter signed Bocquillot to Philippe Hecquet 1661-1737 , a famous doctor in Paris; n.p., 21 September 16 93

by Medicine, – Lazare-André Bocquillot

$600 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 3 1/4 pages plus address panel, a bifolium. In French. A corner torn from seal with loss of a few letters, else fine. Item #409376 A densely written letter about human deformity. Answering a letter by Hecquet questioning whether it is theologically sound to baptize deformed babies what he calls monsters . Bocquillot answers that in some cases the deformity is caused by bestiality

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