Michel of the Vine

Michel of the Vine , born with Vernon in 1588 and dead the June 14th 1648, is a Médecin French.

Alderman of Vernon under the League, his/her father sent it to Paris in an uncle who was chaplain of the King. Raise wonder, it professed the Rhétorique before to have even finished its studies of Médecine and was obliged, to obtain its bonnet of doctor, to await the age prescribes by the statutes of Faculty.

Receipt doctor in 1614, it was made a solid reputation in the treatment of the Fièvre S. Louis XIII called it close to him and did not want any more an other doctor during his last disease. Elected official senior of the Faculty of Paris, Lavigne pled for it against the foreign doctors and obtained in his favor a stop of the Parliament in 1644.

His/her daughter, Anne of the Vine, which was poetess, was very dependant with Descartes. His/her son Claude of the Vine, doctor also, was to him on the other hand a poor man. Michel of the Vine said of him: “ When I made my daughter, I thought of making a son; and when I made my son, I thought of making a girl! ”.

Publications

Magistri Michaelis of the Vine,… Orationes duæ… adversus Theophrastum Renaudot,… and omnes medicos extraneos, illicit Lutetiae Parisiorum medicinam factitantes , Paris, C. Morlot, 1644
Diaeta Sanorum sive ars sanitatis . Paris, Gabriel Targa, 1671

Source

Ferdinand Hoefer, New general Biography , T. 22, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1862, p. 1015

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