The Popularization of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century: Writing, Reading, and Rewriting Samuel Auguste Tissot's Avis au peuple sur sa santé*
The Popularization of Medicine in the Eighteenth Century: Writing, Reading, and Rewriting Samuel Auguste Tissot's Avis au peuple sur sa santé*
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十八世纪医学的普及:写作、阅读和重写塞缪尔·奥古斯特·蒂索的《Avis au peuple sur sa santé》*
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10.1086/656073
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2010
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P. Singy
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P. Singy
Prompted by the recent drowning of a man in Lake Geneva, the Swiss physician Samuel Auguste Tissot (1728–1797) published in June 1761 a short text on the method for reviving drowned people.1 In August of the same year, this text appeared as a chapter in the first edition of what would become Tissot’s most celebrated book during his lifetime, Avis au peuple sur sa sante. Many editions and translations later, on July 8, 1773, the Massachusetts Gazette; and Boston Weekly News-Letter published an excerpt from the chapter on drowning. The passage caught the attention of a Boston shopkeeper and avid newspaper collector named Harbottle Dorr, who cut it out and pasted it into the fourth and final volume of his richly annotated collection of newspapers.2 At the bottom of the Tissot excerpt, he wrote the volume and page numbers of other references to drowning that he had found in earlier newspapers. One such “hyperlink” points us to a story in the Boston Evening Post of May 6, 1765: