Jean Héroard, ou la somnographie du jeune Louis XIII
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- Gantet, Claire Université de Fribourg
- 2024
Published in:
- Le sommeil. Théories, représentations et pratiques (Moyen Âge et époque moderne). - 2024, vol. 125 (2024, p. 355-377
English
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.
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.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département d'histoire
- Language
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- French
- License
- License undefined
- Open access status
- green
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.36167/ML125PDF
- ISSN 2
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/329303
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