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Paris in 1698, by way of Amsterdam and Leyden. Under the influence
of Bossuet he changed his religion in 1699, and took Bossuet's Christian
names. After Bossuet's death (1704) he was a strong supporter of the
Jesuits. His appointments included physician to the Hotel Dieu 1704,
Hopital Generale 1710, professor of French surgery 1721 and the chair
of anatomy and surgery in 1743, Paris. His Paris house was chosen for
its nearness to the Danish embassy, Hotel Dieu, and Jardin Royale. His
autobiography is mostly about the religious arguments connected with
his conversion [L'Autobiographie de J.B. Winslow, ed. Vilhelm Maar
(Paris and Copenhagen, 1912)]. His Exposition anatomique (Paris, 1732)
was a work of great authority and was translated into English in 1734.
M. Vaxllant (1699-1722) was a physician, surgeon and botanist. His
Discours sur la Structure des fleurs, leurs differences et Vusage de leurs parties
(Leyden, 1718) and Botanicon Parisiense (1723, 1727) attracted the
attention of British medical men and botanists: see G.A. Lindeboom,
Hermann Boerhaave (London, 1968), pp. 142-43, 144-46. Seeker probably
heard his lectures at the Jardin Royale, in which he first suggested the
sexuality of plants.
the Salpetriere: the Hopital de la Salpetriere, a general hospital
founded in 1656 for the poor of Paris by Louis XIV. A European
hospital, which was originally a place of refuge under the protection of a
religious order, was usually a place of care rather than cure. In the
eighteenth century there was an increasing demand for facilities for the
clinical methods in the study of disease [Abraham Wolf, History of Science,
Technology and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, 2nd ed. (London, 1952),
pp. 479-80].
M. Gregoire: J.F.A. Gregoire, who founded the first obstetrical clinic
for teaching purposes at the Hotel Dieu in 1720. The younger Gregoire
continued work in obstetrics, along with his father and after him Q.V.
Ricci, The Genealogy of Gynaecology (Philadelphia, 1943), p. 423].
Obstetrics was at this time developing in France as a science distinct
from gynaecology.
B. S. Albinus: Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1770), anatomist, the
son of the elder Albinus (latinized "Weiss") whom he succeeded at
Leyden as professor in 1721 (Lindeboom, Boerhaave, pp. 121-22).
Father Montfaucon: Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741), a great
Maurist scholar and editor of the Greek fathers, who was a pioneer in
Greek paleography (see David Knowles, "Great Historical Enterprises
II, The Maurists," T.R.H.S., 5th ser., vol. IX, 1959, pp. 180-81).