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Doctor Jean-Paul Marat (1743–93) and his time as a physician in Great Britain

2013; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4997/jrcpe.2013.117

ISSN

2042-8189

Autores

JR Silver, M-F Weiner,

Tópico(s)

Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices

Resumo

Jean-Paul Marat was a French revolutionary, famously murdered in his bath by Charlotte Corday in 1793.A lesser known fact is that for over ten years he lived in Britain where he practised as a doctor.During this time he visited London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Holland.Although he had no formal medical training, he published two medical papers on gleets (gonorrhoea) and diseases of the eyes and, on the recommendation of two eminent Scottish physicians,

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