Open AccessJean Liébault (1535–1596), médecin hippocratique: vers la gynécologie moderne
Author(s) -
Florence Bourbon
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
renaissance and reformation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2293-7374
pISSN - 0034-429X
DOI - 10.33137/rr.v33i3.15352
Subject(s) - the renaissance , silence , humanities , hippocratic oath , critical edition , portuguese , philosophy , art , classics , medicine , art history , psychiatry , linguistics , aesthetics
While Hippocrates’ gynaecological treatises were entirely translated into Latin in 1525, thus breaking the silence to which Galen had confined them, and while the entire gynaecological knowledge accumulated until the Renaissance kept circulating in the Gynaeciorum libri, Liébault published in 1582 a large treatise entitled Trois livres appartenant aux infirmitez et maladies des femmes and renamed Thresor des remedes secrets pour les maladies des femmes in 1585. It was a translation of Giovanni Marinello’s work. Liébault’s choice, together with his foreword and his personal comments scattered throughout the translation, particularly regarding the uterus and menstruation, highlights his Hippocratic rather than Galenic viewpoint, thus contributing to the emergence of modern gynaecology.