Chalmers, Alexander, 1759-1834, [from Old Catalog] Ed
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Digitized by Google S99 G E N: D R £i labourffd woifc. 6. <^ Life of Peter du Bosc,** 1716^ 8to« At hU death he left five histories of his own life, each composed in a different style and manner, which he di*» reeled to be pilblisbed. He left also beqaests for various singular foundations, some of which, being disputed as to the testator^s meaning, it was decided that they should be applied to the institution of prizes in the university of Paris. » GENDRON (Claude Dbshais), a celebrated doctor of physic of the faculty at Montpellier, physician in ordinary to Monsieur brother of Louis XIV. and to the duke of Orleans, regent of France, descended from a respectable family in fieaur% and was born in 1663. By a skill, pe-' culiar to himself, he restored great numbers of persons to health whose cases appeared hopeless, and gained great reputation, particularly in the core of cancers, and disor- ders of the eyes. Having acquired a handsome fortune, be went to reside at Auteuil, near Paris, in a house which formerly belonged to his friend, the celebrated Boileau^ but had been his own near thirty years, where noblemen, ministers, ambassadors, chief magistrates, the learned, and numerous persons of both sexes, went frequently to visit, or to consult him.
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