Letter 3723

Malouin introduces himself. He encloses an unspecified curiosity from Normandy, which he hopes will enrich natural history. He was informed of a new technique reported by a surgeon who visited London and studied under Cheselden. Malouin is working as a surgeon and would like to know how surgeries are performed in England. He suspects that Cheselden’s method is the same as Boerhaave and Winslow’s. Malouin presents Sloane with two theses from the Faculty of Medicine at Paris and the latest Mémoires de l’académie. Paul Jacques Malouin (1701-1777/8) was a French physician and chemist. He entered the Académie des sciences in 1742 and was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Jardin du Roi in 1745. Malouin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753 and in the same year purchased the position of médecin de la reine for 22,000 livres. In 1770 he was made physician to the Dauphin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jacques_Malouin).