Jean-Jacques Manget
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Jean-Jacques Manget was a Swiss physician and writer. He was an assiduous compiler of previous medical literature.
He wrote in particular a major treatise on the bubonic plague
. He is known also for a large collection of alchemical works, the Bibliotheca Curiosa Chemica, from 1702.
He wrote in particular a major treatise on the bubonic plague
Bubonic plague
Plague is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin. Primarily carried by rodents and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death...
. He is known also for a large collection of alchemical works, the Bibliotheca Curiosa Chemica, from 1702.
Works
- Bibliotheca Curiosa Chemica, two volumes (1702)
- Traité de la peste recueilli des meilleurs auteurs anciens et modernes (Geneva, 1721) online as PDF, 28Mb download
- Jo. Jac. Manget, ... Bibliotheca medico-practica, sive Rerum medicarum thesaurus cumulatissimus : tomis octo comprehensis. - Editio altera. - Cramer & Philibert, Genevae digital)