Simon Baudichon, known as Simon Baldichius, was a 16th century French physician, originally from the diocese of Le Mans[nb 1], professor at the Collège royal from 1567 to 1577. He died in 1584.

Biography

Bachelor on 12 March 1554[1] he obtained his licence from the Faculty of Medicine of Paris on 28 March 1556, under the chairmanship of Arthur Rioust, Doctor Regent in the Faculty of Medicine, with a thesis entitled: An ex suppressis hæmorroïdibus glabrities ?[2][nb 2] He was admitted as a doctor the same year.[3]

He was considered one of the most skilful practitioners of his time.[2]

In 1568, Charles IX, "always full of benevolence towards his Royal College", created a second chair of medicine in favour of Simon Baudichon who became a royal reader in medicine.[4]

However, having converted to Calvinism, Simon Baudichon was summoned on 30 June 1568 before the King's Attorney General to be heard with Pierre de la Ramée and other professors[5] On 8 October 1570, following the treaty of the Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the University obtained letters patent restricting the right to teach there to Catholics only. Jacques Charpentier, dean of the faculty of medicine, had Simon Baudichon and five other Protestant doctor-regents excluded.

Baudichon and his colleagues were reinstated from Charles IX himself; on 17 May 1571, they obtained new letters patent from him rehabilitating them in all their rights. "The Faculty of Medicine had to reinstate them but dispensed them from lecturing".[1]

Baudichon remained a teacher at the Royal College until 1577.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ He is simply a Champenois following Guillaume Du Val or, according to the Mémoire historique et littéraire sur le Collège Royal de France, his place of birth may be Sens
  2. ↑ Does the removal of haemorrhoids lead to the loss of the hair system?

References

  1. 1 2 Jacqueline Vons (1 April 2012). "Première partie : Docteurs et lecteurs royaux en médecine - Projet de recherche "La médecine à la cour de France (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)"" (in French). Retrieved 16 January 2021..
  2. 1 2 Claude Pierre Goujet (1758). Mémoire historique et littéraire sur le Collège Royal de France (in French). Vol. 3. Augustin Martin Lottin. p. 12. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  3. 1 2 Guillaume Du Val (1644). Le Collège Royal de France. Institution, Establissement et Catalogue des Lecteurs et Professeurs Ordinaires du Roy (in French). Bovillette. p. 68. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  4. ↑ Abel Lefranc (1893). Histoire du Collège de France : depuis ses origines jusqu'à la fin du premier empire (in French). Paris: Hachette. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  5. ↑ Michel Félibien (1725). Histoire de la ville de Paris (in French). Paris: Guillaume Desprez et Jean Desessartz. p. 824. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
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