See also: Chirac (homonymy)

Pierre Chirac , doctor French, born with Conches in Rouergue (Aveyron), towards 1650, died in 1732.

His/her parents, not very fortunate, intended it at the ecclesiastical state. After having made its humanities with Rodez, it went in 1678 to Montpellier to study theology there. Placed in a pharmacist in the capacity as tutor, it drew the taste of medicine there and was not long in being distinguished there among the pupils from the university. Michel Chicoyneau, which was chancellor, entrusted the education of his/her children to him. Extremely hard and very assiduous with the public lessons of the professors, Chirac was soon in a position to give itself of it. Covered doctorate in 1683, it obtained a pulpit which it fills with as much zeal than success. Named in 1692 doctor of the army of Catalonia ordered by the Marshal of Noailles, he managed to cure very promptly and using very simple means a epidemic Dysenterie which made great devastations. He only left these functions to occupy those of doctor of the port of Rochefort.

Reached itself of the fatal epidemic which reigned in this unhealthy city, it was treated according to the method which it had indicated, which did not prevent its convalescence from being long and painful. At the end of two years, it came to take again its pulpit in Montpellier, and the pupils were more numerous there than ever. Called in 1706 by the regent Philippe of Orleans in Italy and Spain (1707), it followed this prince in his campaigns of Italy and from Spain, returned with him to Paris and was selected to be its first doctor in 1715. The favors, followed one another then quickly. Honore in 1716 of the free title of associate of the Academy of Science, it replaced Fagon in the superintendence of the royal Jardin of the plants in 1718. He accepted noble letters in 1728 and became, in 1731, first doctor of Louis XV, but he does not enjoy this place a long time because he died in Marly, in March of the following year.

Chirac had a disproportionate ambition and a ridiculous vanity; he wanted to be the oracle of medicine and, as he could distribute employment, a crowd the flattering ones encouraged this proud claim. It highly wished to establish in Paris an academy of medicine which was to correspond with the doctors of all the hospitals of the kingdom and the foreign countries, to propose remedies to be tested to them in the various diseases, to carefully collect the result of these experiments as well as the observations provided by the opening of the corpses, and to form by this means a body of medicine based on the experimentation.

The faculty of Paris, jealous of its privileges which she believed compromised, ruined this useful project; that of Montpellier, more flexible, adopted against the wish of its old statutes another project. It accepted doctors doctor-surgeons only during the life of Chirac.

Work

1. Letter (with Mr. Régis) on the structure of the hair and the hairs , Montpellier, 1688, in-12. The author compares the root of these delicate nets with that of the bulbous plants, indicates their mode of nutrition, of increase, and deteriorations which they test in this singular disease, known under the name of Clique Polish. Placid Soraci, young Italian doctor, made print an answer in which he claims the priority of the discovery that had allotted Chirac;
2. Dissertatio academica, in qua disquiritur year inciibo ferrumrubiginosum, aflirm. , Montpellier, 1692, in-12.
3. Dissertatio academica, in qua disquiritur year passioni iliacœ globidi plumbei hydraryro prcercndi , Montpellier, 1694, in-12. The author decides for the negative one; he explains rather exactly the invagination of the intestines;
4. De Molucordis, adiersaria analylica , Montpellier, 1698, in-12; pitiful Rhapsody under a specious title;
5. Letters on the apology for Vieussens , Montpellier, 1698, in-8°. The famous anatomist Raymond Vieussens flattered himself to have shown the first the existence of an acid in blood: Chirac asserts this purely imaginary discovery;
6. medico-surgical Quœslio of vulneribus: ulrum absolula suppuratione, AD promovendam cicatricem, prœsicnl dclergenlia salino aguœ, rcsp . Antoine de Jussieu, Montpellier, 1707, in-12. Successes that Chirac had obtained use of water of Balaruc, in the cure of a serious wound of the duke of Orleans, determined it to publish this essay, which was translated into French under this liter: Observations of surgery on the nature and the treatment of the wounds , Paris, 1742, in-12, and united with the opuscule of Fizes on the suppuration of the soft parts;
7. Observations on the inconveniences to which the crews of the vessels are prone, and in the manner of treating them . Paris, 1724, in-8°. The thesis of Chirac, on incubates or nightmare, constant by Jean Baptiste of Rosnel, that on passion Illaque, and several others, was translated and published by Bruiner, joined together with the essays and consultations of Silva, Paris, 1744, 2 vol. in-12.

All the works of Chirac are disfigured by an at the same time incorrect, obscure and sought style. The majority of its theories are erroneous. Isn't it enough to say that he refused with the plague, with the Variole, the Gale even, the contagious property, and that he had art to allure his pupils by these false doctrines? One must still reproach him his unjust contempt for Hippocrates and Galien.

It would not have any relationship with the president Jacques Chirac.

Source

• Quid of the presidents of the republic and the candidates by Dominique Frémy - Robert Laffont, 1987.