Dictionary of national biography Volume 7 Sir Leslie Stephen

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...BUISSIERE or BUSSIERE, PAUL (d. 1739), surgeon and anatomist, was a native of France, and a protestant who had fled his country on account of his religion. Of his general or professional education nothing appears to be known, but we learn that before leaving France he had practised with distinction in the principality of Orange. He settled in the first instance at Copenhagen, then coming over here was naturalised 10 Oct. 1688, and afterwards fixed himself in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, where he rapidly attained to the highest reputation and success. He was the surgeon who attended Mr. Harley when stabbed at the council table by the Marquis de Guiscard, in March 1710-11; he also attended the assassin after his committal to Newgate, and had the honour of being called in to the consultation on the last illness of Queen Caroline. Lord Hervey, in writing of the last event in November 1737, states that "although fourscore years old the king and queen had a great opinion of Buissiere, and preferred him to every other man of his profession. Buissiere was one of the first to introduce a course of lectures on anatomy and physiology into England. He had been admitted a foreign member of the Royal Society on 22 May 1700, but was placed on the home list in 1713, and chosen one of the council in 1719. To the "Philosophical Transactions" he contributed six papers, wholly on anatomical subjects. Other papers from his pen are to be found in the "Memoires" of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, of which he became a corresponding member in March 1699, and in the "Acta Eruditorum." He also maintained a scientific correspondence with Sir Hans Sloane, which is still preserved in the archives of the Royal Society. Buissiere died at his house in Suffolk Street in January 1738-9 (Probat... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Dictionary of national biography Volume 7 (Sir Leslie Stephen)