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Régis Olry

Publications and source records attributed to Régis Olry.

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PubMed2006

Did Jean Condorcet (1743-1794) commit suicide?

Condorcet was a famous French mathematician, philosopher and revolutionary. In circumstances that are still unclear, he died in a cell of the Bourg-Egalité prison on 29 March 1794. Most historians of the French Revolution accept suicide as the most likely cause of death but we cannot rule out the possibility that he died of stroke or exhaustion.

Famous Persons↗
PubMed2005

[The dental surgeon Fiacre-Joseph of Goy, a formerly miraculously cured priest of the slaughter September 1792].

Catholic priest Fiacre-Joseph of Goy, born in the Auvergne, was imprisoned in Les Carmes at the end of August 1792. On September 2, during the September massacres, he was thought to have been killed and was taken to the Vaugirard cemetery, where the carter realized that he was only severely injured. Miraculously saved from the massacres, de Goy then became a dental surgeon. Under the Directoire, he resumed his ecclesiastical career, acquiring from the member of the National Convention, Merlin de Thionville, the Mont-Valérien monastery, where he died on February 19, 1806.

Catholicism↗
PubMed2002

Baron Münchhausen and the syndrome which bears his name: history of an endearing personage and of a strange mental disorder.

Munchausen syndrome, a mental disorder, was named in 1951 by Richard Asher after Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron Münchhausen (1720-1797), whose name had become proverbial as the narrator of false and ridiculously exaggerated exploits. The first edition of Münchhausen's tales appeared anonymously in 1785 (Baron Münchausen's narrative of his marvelous travels and campaigns in Russia), and was wrongly attributed to German poet Gottfried August Bürger who actually edited the first German version the following year. The real author, Rudolph Erich Raspe, never claimed his rights over the successive editions of this book. This paper reviews the extraordinary personality of Baron Münchhausen, and the circumstances which led Rudolph Erich Raspe, Gottfried August Bürger, and Richard Asher to pay homage to this very endearing personage.

Germany↗
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[The arterial system of the Japanese anatomist Buntaro Adachi].

The Japanese anatomist Buntaro Adachi (1865-1945) has to be regarded as the pivotal figure of vascular anatomy of all times. His masterpiece, "Das Arteriensystem der Japaner" was published in 1928 as a result of over thirty years of research on hundreds of bodies, and it remains today a bibliographical reference that can't be ignored. However, Buntaro Adachi intended writing much more than an encyclopedia of vascular anatomy : he wanted to introduce a concept of racial anatomy, pointing out the anatomical specificities in Japanese people, probably in reaction against the Chinese and then Occidental influence on anatomical knowledge in Japan.

Anatomy↗
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[Pierre-Joseph Duhem (1758-1807), doctor regicide, and other National Convention physician-deputies vis-a-vis the lawsuit of Louis XVI].

On January 16, 1793, seven hundred aud forty nine deputies of the National Convention are called on to express their opinion by word of mouth about this question: "What penalty Louis, former king of the French, brought upon himself ?" Among these deputies, 47 are or were physicians : 22 vote for death without delay, 3 for suspended death sentence, 20 for indulgence (imprisonment till the peace and banishment thereafter), and 2 refuse to vote. This paper aims at summarizing the attitude of the physicians-deputies, and more specifically those of Pierre-Joseph Duhem, at the time of one of the most famous trials of the history of France.

Capital Punishment↗