Letter 3641

This is a copy of a letter sent from Messieurs Barrillot and Fabri to Woolhouse. The authors heard from Monsieur Hussard that Woolhouse wants to write a book on the history of Geneva. Barrillot and Fabri want to publish it and discuss what they believe should be included. The history of Geneva is discussed in some detail. John Thomas Woolhouse was an English oculist and physician. He practiced physic in London, served James II for a time, and in 1711 secured a position at Paris’s Hospice des Quinze-Vingts. He served as the King of France’s oculist, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1721, and a member of both the Berlin Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Sciences of Bologna. Woolhouse was criticized for charlatanry by some contemporaries (Anita McConnell, Woolhouse, John Thomas (16661734), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29954, accessed 17 July 2013]).