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Joseph Marie Audin-Rouvière

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Joseph Marie Audin-Rouviere
Born26 March 1764
Died23 April 1832 (1832-04-24) (aged 68)
NationalityFrench
OccupationFrench doctor

Joseph Marie Audin-Rouvière (born 26 March 1764 in Carpentras; died in Paris on 23 April 1832) was a French doctor.[1]

Biography

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He published in 1794 "Medicine without the doctor or health manual, a work intended to relieve infirmities, to prevent acute illnesses, to cure chronic illnesses, without the help of a foreign hand ", a work which became popular and obtained a large number of editions.[2] He also amassed a great fortune by selling, under the name of grains of life or grains of health, a secret remedy which he gave as a universal remedy and which is only Johann Peter Frank's tonic- purgative. He was a member of the Masonic lodge "Les Frères Artistes" of the Sacred Order of the Sophisians.[3]

Notes

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  1. Secret society dedicated to Isis, created in the Parisian lodge of the Artist Brothers by former members of the Egyptian expedition

References

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  1. ^ "FRAN_IR_042342 - Online catalogue". www.siv.archives-nationales.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  2. ^ Audin-Rouvière, Joseph Marie (1828). La médecine sans le médecin: ou manuel de santé (in French). L'Auteur.
  3. ^ Spieth, Darius Alexander (2007). Napoleon's Sorcerers: The Sophisians. Associated University Presse. ISBN 978-0-87413-957-0.