[Pierre Camper (1722-1789). His scientific career and his friendship with Antoine Louis (1723-1792)].
Peter Camper kept close ties with his foreign Scientists. His tight friendship with Antoine Louis lasted for almost forty years. In 1777 one the occasions of staying in Paris he held several discussions about the incurable breast cancer in meeting of the Académie Royale de Médecine, about truss (Société Royale des Sciences) and rinderpest (Société Royale de Médecine). Generally the audience welcomed his ideas. For instance it preferred his facial line to the criterion proposed by Daubenton and the truss he had devised instead the one devised by Geoffroy. Without any exception the treatises he introduced were very well received and propagated over Europe, after their publication in the transactions of several academies of which he was a member.
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Teunis Willem
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