[ASTRUC], Traité des maladies des enfans, [v.1750]

Original manuscript in French.
This anonymous manuscript reproduces the course given by Jean Astruc (1684 -1766), the holder of the chair of medicine at the Collège royal from 1731.
The teaching of the Montpellier doctor was very successful. Astruc dictated his courses and on several occasions these texts were published without the author's name and, poorly copied, distorted the thinking of the learned doctor. I
t was only at the end of his life that Astruc considered it necessary to write down his courses to avoid forgeries.
However, his teaching on children's diseases was never published. Only a "pirate" edition had appeared in English in 1746.
Our course reproduces the structure of the few manuscript copies that we know of, notably that of the Kottek manuscript of 1747, which had been the subject of a modern facsimile (Stalkine, 1980).
However, we will note some differences in the text; for example, in our manuscript, Astruc proposes the end of the first age of childhood at two and a half years (instead of three and a half years in the Kottek manuscript).