Edme-Claude Bourru

Edme-Claude Bourru doctor regent and librarian of the faculty of Paris, born the March 27th 1741, dies the September 21st 1823, member of the Académie of medicine, and first senior of the medical college of Paris until in 1793.

Biography

Edme-Claude Bourru writes a catalog in 1770 with like prefaces: " Catalogus librorum which in bibliotheâ Facultatis saluberrimoe Parisiensis asserventur process authorum alphabetico digestus curâ and studio Mr. Edmundi Claudii Bourru ejurdem bibliothe coe proefecti; Decano Mr. Ludovico Petro Felice Renato Thieullier A.R.S.H. MDCCLXX."

Impassioned by the translation of English medical works, Edme-Claude Bourru, doctor devoted and considered, exalté by the botanical culture and the literature, it will support during its license, several theses noticed, like the organization of the hair and the demonstration that the use of the wine perhaps allowed those which play of the horn and the bugle .

In 1786 it is named senior of the medical college and wife the girl of Ambroise Rousseau lawyer at the Parliament, with which, it will have two children, Claude-Happiness-Hippocrates and Galien who, both will die in low age.

Not having never accepted the removal of the decayed books of the library of the school, Edme-Claude Bourru will resign of his station and replaced by the doctor Nicolas Jeanroy who will proceed to the installation of the books in the old schools of right of the street of Beauvais.

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