1807

Xavier Bichat. (Galle.)

Obverse -	Bust of Xavier Bichat (1771 — 1802), right.
Legend,	XAVIER BICHAT.
Under the bust,	GALLE F.

Reverse -	In the field is a club with a snake entwined around it.
Legend,	SOCIETE MEDICALE D'EMULATION DE PARIS.
Below,	M.DCCC.VII.

Size, 28 mm. — Julius 1854

Edwards - 318

Plate XXIII. No. 2

31st December, 1807.

Jetton.

Xavier Bichat.

R. Paris Medical Society of Emulation.

XAVIER BICHAT. Head, to the right. Beneath: GALLE F. (fecit).

R: SOCIETE MEDICALE D'EMULATION DE PARIS. (Paris Medical Society of Emulation). In the field Esculapius's baton with the serpent. Below: M.DCCC.VII. [28".]

MARIE-FRANÇOIS-XAVIER BICHAT was born at Thoirette, in the department of the Jura, on the 11th of November 1771. He began his studies of anatomy and of operative medicine at Lyons and went to Paris to continue them. In the winter of 1797 he delivered his first course of lectures on anatomy. After numerous and diversified labours he published in succession his Treatises on the Membranes, on Life and Death, and on General Anatomy, (Traité des Membranes, Traité sur la Vie et la Mort, and Anatomic Générale); works which raised his reputation to its zenith. He was made physician to the Hôtel Dieu at Paris at the age of 29, and had published two volumes of his Anatomic Descriptive (having also commenced the third) when he died, July 22nd, 1802, of the consequences of a fall.

Bramsen - 695 Xavier Bichat. (Galle.)
XAVIER BICHAT. Tête, à droite.	Rev: SOCIETE MEDICALE D'EMULATION DE PARIS. Dans le champ, le bâton d'Esculape entouré du serpent. En bas: M.DCCC.VII.
Jeton, 28 mm. - T. N. 23, 2; H. m. 71, 446.

d'Essling - 2112 Société médicale d'emulation, 1807. (Galle).
Tête de Xavier Bichat à dr.	R: Bâton d'Esculape entouré du serpent.
Arg. et br. 28 mm. - (TN 23.2 — M. 446 — B. 695).

Milan - 623 BICHAT Xavier — Società Medica d'Emulazione
D. XAVIER BICHAT. Nel centro, testa di Xavier Bichat a d; nel campo, in basso, al centro, sotto il taglio del collo: GALLE. F. Contorno a piatto e gola.	R. SOCIETE MEDICALE D'EMULATION DE PARIS. Nel campo, al centro, bastone di Esculapio; nel campo, in basso, al centro: M.D.CCC.VII. Contorno a piatto e gola.
Autore: GALLE;	Data: 1807
Caratteristiche tecniche: Bronzo;	Ømm 28;0; Coniazione
Condizione giuridica: Stato-Brera n.6242; N. Inv.: M.0.9.30471
Bibl.: Bramsen, n.695; Julius, n.1854; Essling, n.2112; Millin, ---; De Felissent, ---