1443 - Hecquet, P.

Hecquet, P. The Natural Causes of Convulsions in Diseases of the Convulsive Epidemic. Solothurn: Andreas Gymnicus, “To the Truth,” 1733. ii, 198 p. ╔Included: “Response” to a letter to a confessor concerning the duty of physicians and surgeons regarding miracles and convulsions. w.y. w.pl. (1733). 35 pp. - ╔Discussions╗ on miracles concerning convulsions. 101–163 pp. - ╔A brief overview╗ in the form of a letter on convulsions. Paris, 1733. 32 pp. Probably by P. de Gennes. - ╔Copy╗ of a letter from a parish priest of the diocese of... to M. l’Abbé de... dated November 1731. 20 pp. - ╔Letter╗ from M. l’Abbé D.G. to a professor of literature who had consulted him on several matters in a letter dated January 28, 1732. 36 pp. Contemporary full cloth spine with gilt decoration, with old annotations on the first blank leaf. 6 vols. in 1. - An interesting collection of books and booklets in 1 vol. against the convulsionists. - Temkin, p. 224. Others, above all the physician Philippe Hecquet (1661–1737), opposed these convulsionists and their theological defenders. Hecquet claimed that the whole phenomenon was a contagious disease—an epidemic—and therefore belonged to the realm of medicine, not theology. - 25.