GALEN.

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First separate edition of this French translation by Pierre Tolet of Galen‚Äôs major work on bloodletting, the imprint was shared and published simultaneously by Etienne Dolet. Pierre Tolet or Petrus Toletus (1502-1586) was a French doctor who pioneered, with Jean Canappe, the transmission of medical and surgical knowledge in the French language. He studied medicine in Montpellier (where he was a fellow student of Rabelais), before practicing at the H√¥tel-Dieu in Lyon eventually becoming Dean of the faculty. He set up a teaching program in French, with daily visits by students to the hospital with patients and created a single training course for doctors, barbers and apothecaries. A friend of Rabelais, he was also a leading figure in Lyon‚Äôs cultural life and a member of an influential circle of scholars (Barthélémy Aneau, Maurice Sc√®ve, etc.) He was one of the great popularisers of medical knowledge of his time, and was also a pioneer of the precedence of invention and discovery over received authority. ‚ÄúPierre Tolet is known to us mainly as one of the actors performing the ‚ÄòMorale comoedie de cellui qui avoit espousé une femme mute‚Äô (by Rabelais) at Montpellier. His importance goes however beyond the fact that he is mentioned by Rabelais. He was in fact one of the first men to demand the use of the French language in medicine.‚Äù C. A. Mayer. ‚ÄòPierre Tolet and the Paradoxe du Vinaigre‚Äô. Etienne Dolet played a major role in the publishing of these texts, encoura

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