Société Royale de Médecine: Franklin’s Certificate of
Membership
DS: American Philosophical Society
<Extracts of the minutes of the Society, June 17, 1777, in Latin:
Progress in the natural sciences depends on the scholarly exchange
of advice and observations. This is particularly true in
medicine, which has been called the daughter of time; here
philosophes must communicate whatever they think worthy
of note. For that purpose the King in council, on April 29,
1776, created the Society, through which the eminent physicians
and physicists of Europe might pool information about
epidemics and other scourges in every country. The Society
has selected members and correspondents in France, and now
wishes to enlist foreign physicists. It unanimously elects you,
so prominent in the natural sciences that are relevant to medicine,
so well known for your inventions, and so famous
throughout the world for your virtues and magnanimity, and
sends you through its president this certificate of membership.
Signed by Lassone as permanent president and attested by
Vicq d’Azyr as permanent secretary and vice-director.>
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