[The Treaty of diseases of the bones of the funds of the Museum Laennec de Nantes].
In this article, we analyse and give commentaries on one of the rare Guillaume Laennec's medical manuscripts. It is a treatise of bones' diseases, which is in fact a compilation of notes made, between 1769 and 1772, of Antoine Petit's lectures and other sources. This original document confirms at this time the emergence of rheumatology. It brings it obvious that the paediatrics assert their specific clinical forms. It illustrates the links between surgical and medical pathologies in the eighteenth century. It shows the old humoral theories to be the main obstacle in the way of understanding these pathologies. At last, it reveals that Guillaume Laennec is a member of a medical elite, and contributes to explain the beneficial effect he had on his nephew of genius, René Laennec.
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D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000266:history*; D005602:France; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006801:Humans; D008374:Manuscripts, Medical as Topic / Q000266:history*; D009144:Museums / Q000266:history