Moulinier Pierre. Na\u00eetre hors de la m\u00e9tropole et se former \u00e0 Paris : le cas des docteurs re\u00e7us \u00e0 la Facult\u00e9 de m\u00e9decine de Paris au XIXe si\u00e8cle. In: Outre-mers, tome 96, n\u00b0362-363, 1er semestre 2009. L’Atlantique Fran\u00e7ais. pp. 193-211.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition of his thesis in medicine, with a handwritten inscription on the cover : \u2018To A. M. and Mrs Goullin, with the author\u2019s respectful regards, A. Papin R. Beaufond\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n The recipients of this dedication were most likely Pierre-B\u00e9noni Goullin (1799\u20131875), a merchant and prominent figure in Nantes, and his wife Jos\u00e9phine Chaigneau. In 1828, Pierre-B\u00e9noni Goullin took over the management of Rossel, a marine insurance firm whose business was notably linked to Nantes-based shipping companies engaged in trade with the colonies. His wife, a member of the Chaigneau family, also belonged to a circle closely connected to French colonial enterprises and networks. Pierre-B\u00e9noni was, moreover, the brother of Dr Beno\u00eet-Pierre Goullin (1797\u20131864), a doctor trained in Paris who, in 1821, authored a thesis entitled Dissertation sur l\u2019hypochondrie<\/i>.<\/p>\n Alexis Papin-Ruillier-Beaufond was born in 1835 at Anse Bertrand in Guadeloupe. After obtaining his Bachelor of Science degree in Bordeaux, he completed the medical terms required for the submission of his thesis at the universities of Paris, Bordeaux, Montpellier and Strasbourg, and finally defended his thesis at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris on 28 July 1866.<\/p>\n In his study, the author sought to demonstrate the miasmatic origin of cholera, a theory which was still the subject of debate at the time. This view was the prevailing one in the 19th<\/sup> century; it posited that the disease arose from the emanation of \u2018bad air\u2019 or toxic vapours containing decaying matter. However, the validity of this theory could not be confirmed. It was to this end that Papin-Ruillier-Beaufond devoted himself: \u201cCholera, as we hope to demonstrate in this thesis, is a general disease belonging to the class of virulent diseases of miasmatic origin, and the primary means of understanding the nature of such a disease is, in our view, to study the alterations it causes in these anatomical structures and in the humours of the human body.\u201d<\/p>\n Whilst the work of F. Pacini and J. Snow in 1854 led, respectively, to the discovery of the bacterium responsible for the disease and to an explanation of its spread via contaminated water, it was not until Robert Koch\u2019s work in 1883 that the bacterial origin of the disease was confirmed and its modes of transmission explained.<\/p>\n A good copy, with a few foxing spots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4to (256 x 190 mm) 66 pp. Modern boards, upper cover preserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":91741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[548],"product_tag":[1450,1264,1293],"class_list":{"0":"post-91837","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-medicine","7":"product_tag-first-edition","8":"product_tag-inscription","9":"product_tag-medical-thesis","10":"pa_auteur-papin-ruillier-beaufond-alexis-2","11":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":"PAPIN-RUILLIER-BEAUFOND Alexis","chapeau":"","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, A. Parent, 1866","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":"oui"},"yoast_head":"\n