Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (physician)

Jean-Baptiste Bertrand (July 12, 1670 – September 10, 1752) was a French medical doctor and a member of the Académie de Marseille. Quotes thumb|The system of pestilential worms is placed in its utmost force, supported in a manner capable of giving all the appearance of verity possible to the most ingenious of fictions. Of all classes of writers, the physicians were those who made the press most groan with their effusions. A physician of this city having sent a Memoir to one of his friends at Lyons, who had requested some information respecting the malady, it was believed that this might be made of public utility; and a celebrated physician of the latter place committed it to the press in this rough and unpolished state. He prefixed to it an advertisement, which seems placed there expressly to tarnish the reputation of the Memoir itself, since the Memoir is written with that negligence which usually reigns in a private letter to a friend, whereas the advertisement is a work highly laboured and extremely polished. In this advertisement, the system of pestilential worms is placed in its utmost force, and supported in a manner capable of giving all the appearance of verity possible to the most ingenious of fictions. A Historical Relation of the Plague at Marseilles in the Year 1720, translated by Anne Plumptre (London: printed for Joseph Mawman, 1805), p. 265 External links Category:Physicians from France Category:1670 births Category:1752 deaths