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Swiss writer and physician
Jean-Jacques Manget
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Jean-Jacques Manget (or Johann Jacob Mangetus) (1652–1742) was a Genevan physician and writer. He was an assiduous compiler of previous medical literature.
Life
He was born in Geneva, the son of a merchant. He graduated as a physician at the University of Valence in 1678. Later he became the Dean of the Valence medical faculty. Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg made Manget his personal physician in 1699.
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Manget 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.
Works
- Bibliotheca anatomica, two volumes (Geneva, 1685)
- Bibliotheca medico-practica sive rerum medicarum thesaurus cumulatissimus: tomis octo comprehensis (Geneva, 1695)
- Bibliotheca curiosa chemica, two volumes (Geneva, 1702)
- Traité de la peste recueilli des meilleurs auteurs anciens et modernes (Geneva, 1721)
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