Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (died 1766)

Jean Astruc

French physician and professor (1684–1766)

Jean Astruc was a professor of medicine in France at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of…