The Book of LE CAT, “Traité des Sens” (= Treatise of the senses), Published in 1740, in Rouen (France)

Abstract

This book contained 16 anatomical and optical plates with 3 double ones: the sketch and explanations on one side and the print on the other one. The engravings were made by Herisset. It is the rare, first edition about the five senses, particularly the vision's one. The book was an in octavo and contained 301 pages. There was a dedicacion to the lords of the Normandy's parliament. In fact it was only one part of a large book in three volumes which will be edited later in 1767 as “Oeuvres physiologiques, Traité des sensations et des passions en général, et des sens en particulier” (= Physiological works, Treatise of the sensations and of the passions in general, and of the senses in particular (Paris, by Vallat‐La‐Chapelle). Claude‐Nicolas LE CAT (1700–1768) founded the Royal Academy of Rouen and was one of the most famous french surgeon in the 18th century. He establishes his activity in the town of Rouen (a large harbour in the entrance of the Seine river) in 1729 as the surgeon of his protector: the archibishop La Vergne de Tresan, then he became the chief surgeon of the Hotel‐Dieu in Rouen in 1731 where he built a dissection amphitheater in march 1736. This skilful lithotomist (ablation of the bladder stones) was a member of several societies (Academies of Paris, London, Madrid, …). We specially analyzed the anatomical accuracy of the plates.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.