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Louis-Anne La Virotte(15 July 1725 in Nolay (Côte-d’Or) – 3 March 1759 in Paris) was an 18th-century French physician and encyclopédiste.
Biography
He first studiedmedicine at the Université de Montpellier. He then moved to the French capitale and was introduced to the Journal des sçavans through the protection of chancellor Henri François d'Aguesseau.
He was appointed to the position of docteur régent at the Faculté de médecine de Paris where he was for many years one of the eighteen royal censors for natural history, medicine and chemistry. At the beginning of the Seven Years' War in 1757, he joined the army of Westphalia. In the following years, he practised at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris. Melchior Grimm wrote: "He joined a lot of knowledge and literature, a strong and pleasant spirit and all the qualities of a good man".
He wrote the article Docteur en médecine for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert.
Works (selection)
- 1749: Découvertes philosophiques de Newton de Maclaurin. (translated from English)
- 1750: Nоuvelles Observations Microscopiques de Needham (translated from English)
- 1757: Observations sur une Hydrophobie spontanée, suivie de la rage.