Gantet, Claire 2024 Claire Gantet, Jean Héroard: a Somnography of the Young King Louis XIII The French physician Jean Héroard, who already was Court’s medical officer of king Henri III, was named First physician of king Louis XIII six days before his birth in 1601 and retained this position until his own death in 1628. From 1605 to 1627 he held a medical diary on the young king’s health, an unusual document that sets up not only general diseases and growth steps, but also plentiful precise day-to-day observations without the respectful distance that characterized later health journals of kings. In this journal sleep was given careful attention. Héroard not only noted the times the Dauphin went to bed, falled asleep, woke up and stood up, but also his nocturnal dreams, fears and insomnia. This considerable care went hand in hand with a significant caution in medical intervention on sleep. Instead, he administrated traditional medieval remedies. Héroard acted more as an observer than as a sleep physician. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/329303 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/329303/files/heroard_micrologus_16.pag.355-378_1.pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/329303/files/heroard_micrologus_16.pag.355-378_2.pdf fre info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.36167/ML125PDF info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Le sommeil. Théories, représentations et pratiques (Moyen Âge et époque moderne). - 2024, vol. 125 (2024, p. 355-377 History of Sleep History of Medicine Jean Héroard Louis XIII Jean Héroard, ou la somnographie du jeune Louis XIII http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248