Daniel Le Clerc

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Daniel Le Clerc

1652-1728

Swiss physician who practiced medicine in Geneva and wrote extensively on the subject of medicine. His published works include Surgery (1695), History of Medicine (1696), and Historia naturalis . . . nascentium (1715). Le Clerc became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1699; he gave up the practice of medicine in 1704 for the public life.

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