Jean Stanislas Mittié et la syphilis
Thesis or Dissertation
Abstract(s)
Jean-Stanislas Mittié, un médecin de la région parisienne, développe et tente de faire
approuver un remède végétal contre la syphilis entre 1777 et 1795. Le mémoire présenté ici
propose une analyse des différents documents textuels qui entourent ses démarches afin de
relever l’impact qu’aura la fin de l’Ancien Régime et la Révolution française sur sa pratique
médicale. Son parcours permet de mettre en relief les transformations qui ont lieu dans les
structures de pouvoir qui régissent la médecine au XVIIIe siècle, sur le plan institutionnel,
politique, et culturel. Jean-Stanislas Mittié, a medical doctor from the Paris region, develops and attempts to gain
approval for a vegetal cure to syphilis between 1777 and 1795. The present memoir proposes
an analysis of the various textual documents surrounding his endeavours in order to assess
the impact of the end of the Ancien Régime and the French Revolution on his medical practice.
His individual story reveals the important transformations of institutional, political and cultural
power structures regulating medicine at the end of the 18th century.
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