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Excerpt from A New and General Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 8 of 15 Hecquet (philip), a French phyfician of fingular merit and ikill, but a flrong partizan of the ufe of warm water and of bleeding; for which reafon he was ridiculed by Le Sage in his Gil Blas, under the name of_dr. Sangrada. He was born at Abbeville, in 1661, and praetifed firlt In that city, then at Port royal, and la'ftly, at Paris. He was not properlyfan grade, for he took the degree Of doflor in 1697; and in 1698 had more bufmefs than he could attend. Though attached to the molt fimple mode of life, he was obliged to keep his carriage, in which he ltudied with as much attention as in his clofet. In 1712, he was appointed dean of. The faculty of medicine, and fuperintended the publication of a fort of difpenfary, called, The New Code of Pharmacy, which was publifhed fome time afterwards. Hccquet was no lefs zealous in religious mat ters than {ludious in his own profellion, and is faid never to have prefcribed in doubtful cafes, without having a previous recourfe to prayer. He lived in the moll abflemious manner, and in 1727 retired to a convent of Carmelites in Paris, where he continued acceflible only to the poor, to whom he was a friend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.