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Written for a Young Girl by Joseph François Malgaigne

Fred B. Rogers, MD

JAMA. 1968;204(1):43-46.

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Joseph François Malgaigne, eminent French surgeon of the 19th century, wrote for Mlle. Aline Chardin, the young daughter of an old friend, words of advice on the choice of a library. These remarks, Conseils pour le choix d'une bibliothèque, écrits pour une jeune fille, were not printed during Malgaigne's lifetime. The manuscript was given to his biographer and son-in-law, Edouard Pilastre, by the dedicatee, Mme. Aline Chardin Chazal. M. Pilastre, a lawyer who during his student days had listened to his medical friends praise the virtues of their great professor, reproduced the Conseils in his biography of Malgaigne, published in 1905.¹ Thirty-one years later, the American bibliophile Frank Altschul produced the first separate printing of this French literary period piece.²

Its author, Joseph François Malgaigne, was born on Feb 14, 1806, in the Vosges town of Charmes, on the left bank of the Moselle River. Son of the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia.

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