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Tables of Contents for A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
A Note on Translation
x
Abbreviations
xi
Introduction
1
15
A Medical Town: Montpellier in the Eighteenth Century
16
34
At the ``elbow'' of the south
18
1
University and town
19
6
The gardens
25
1
Promoting and disseminating knowledge
26
5
In the hospitals of Montpellier
31
4
Practice and practitioners
35
2
The waters
37
13
A University in the Enlightenment: The University of Medicine of Montpellier
50
30
Institutional hierarchy
52
4
Professors and students
56
7
Student life
63
4
The teachers of Bordeu
67
13
Boissier de Sauvages and the Emergence of Vitalism in Montpellier
80
32
Against Descartes: Sauvages's early career
81
5
Predictable and unpredictable remedies
86
4
Sauvages's nosology
90
3
Pathology and physiology
93
2
Forces, faculties, and the action of the soul
95
6
Classifying disease
101
11
The Ascent to Paris: Montpellier Physicians in the Capital of Enlightenment
112
35
``This vile country''
113
2
``Hommes du Midi'' in Paris
115
1
The lure of surgery
116
2
Students again
118
2
The Montpellier Encyclopedists
120
4
Montpellierains and Paris medical journalism
124
5
Vitalism in the salon
129
3
Montpellier and the court
132
15
Vitalism and the Encyclopedist Movement
147
38
Celebrating Bearn
148
3
A family collaboration in Paris
151
3
Vital force in the body
154
6
Vitalism in the Encyclopedie
160
3
Medicine and chemistry
163
5
Barthez as Encyclopedist
168
4
Vitalists and materialists
172
13
Time of Troubles: The University--Court Connection in the late Ancien Regime
185
30
Untenable practices
186
3
At war with the town doctors
189
5
The clinic thwarted
194
3
Internecine struggle
197
7
A world away: Bordeu at court
204
11
Semiotics, Smallpox, Sex: From the Practical to the Philosophical in Vitalist Medicine
215
40
Semiotics and the search for certainty
217
3
``A frightful and treacherous malady''
220
5
``Practical medicine'' in the Encyclopedie
225
5
Vital variability: the case of women
230
25
Barthez and the ``Science of Man''
255
32
Infinity of ills, infinity of cures
257
3
The vital principle
260
5
Forces of the animal economy
265
6
``Modifications'' of the vital principle: temperament and age
271
4
Barthez and the ``vitalist sect''
275
12
Vitalism in the Late Enlightenment
287
34
The reception of Barthez's synthesis
290
3
Montpellier and the Societe royale de medecine
293
12
Vitalism and Mesmerism
305
16
Conclusion: The End of the Enlightenment and the Eclipse of Montpellier
321
14
Select Bibliography
335
19
Index
354