(SUMMING) LION'S DEN PRIORY. MEDICINE. - Lot 202

(SUMMING) LION'S DEN PRIORY. MEDICINE. Autograph letter signed Pierre-Antoine MARTEAU (1706-1772) Doctor of Medicine, agrégé au Collège d'AMIENS", written at the Abbey of LIHONS (80) 13 January at midnight, to M. ARSELIN, doctor of Paris; 3 pages in 4. Beautiful medical letter. He saw M. de Mauvoisin for the first time on January 1. "Il avoit esquinancie œdémato-phlegmoneuse qui avoit été combattüe par les saignées, les anti-phlogistiques, et les minoratifs. It ended in resolution, but it was only to make way for inflammatory rheumatism. The pains attacked successively all the joints, with tumor, pain, and a mediocre redness, erratic and abnormal fever, and frequent sweating, or at least the usual mewing"... He could not confuse it with gout. "Taking Sydenham's practice as a guide, I advised refreshments, a mealy diet, and sweet milk enemas. The pains continued to be erratic and rebellious. "The fever showed itself in irregular bouts of tems, and without horripilations. The lavamens brought back bilious matter of unbearable fetidity. Breath was stinking"... Called a second time the day before yesterday, he gives new information, and asks his colleague for advice. In postscript, he informs of the patient's death... The Priory Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul of LIHONS (Somme) whose date of foundation is unknown was a Benedictine monastery which disappeared during the Revolution. It was one of the most important Cluniac priories of the Middle Ages.