[Aude/Carcassonne/Chirurgie] Personal and professional archi - Lot 208

[Aude/Carcassonne/Chirurgie] Personal and professional archives of Jacques Rose Marie Bellemanière, chief surgeon of the Carcassonne hospice: military replacement act, appointment, resignation and promotion decrees, legal proceedings, invoices, bills of exchange, domestic receipts, correspondence with postmarks, botany course (manuscript, 54 leaves) ; consultation report on a uterine tumor by Toulouse surgeon Jacques-Mathieu Delpech, medical file of Mme de Laur née de Blomad in Carcassonne, draft report on smallpox vaccination (handwritten notebook), notes on clinical surgery taken from courses given by Jacques-Mathieu Delpech, Joseph Claude Anthelme Récamier and the Revue médicale, smallpox vaccination register, files on the management and work of his house in Carcassonne and his estate at El Achour in Algeria 1819-1867 Jacques Marie Rose Bellemanière was born in Alzonne on 16 Floréal Year IV, the son of Jean and Victoire Rivals. From the class of 1816, he was drawn by lot and chose to be replaced. The deed of replacement was signed on January 5, 1819 with Jean-Marie Sénat of Saint-Lézer (canton of Vic in the Hautes-Pyrénées). He studied medicine. He was appointed supernumerary surgeon at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital in Paris on May 28, 1823, then assistant surgeon at the Dunkirk military hospital 1 month later. However, he resigned from this position on July 9 of the same year to return to Carcassonne, where he practiced medicine. In particular, he collaborated with the judicial authorities, who entrusted him with visiting victims of assault and battery and drawing up reports. On September 24, 1828, he learned that the Prefect was to award him a silver medal for services rendered in vaccination operations. On July 31, 1834, he was appointed second surgeon at the Carcassonne hospice, becoming chief surgeon on May 26, 1854. During his career in Carcassonne, he was a member of the medical jury for the Aude department and a prison physician. He resigned from this position on October 15, 1838, following a quarrel with the prefect Roulleaux-Dugage. The latter criticized him for having granted certificates of convenience, allowing 3 inmates to travel in a carriage when they could have done so on foot. Relations between the Prefect and Bellemanière remained tense the following year. On June 14, 1839, the State representative called the doctor to order, as he had refused to sit on the midwife examination commission without giving any reasons. In January 1843, he consulted his colleague Dr. Trousseau, who diagnosed a chronic phlegmon of the laryngeal mucosa from a distance and advised him to inhale potassium arsenate morning and night. While Trousseau considered this treatment simple, easy and innocent, arsenic salts are now considered highly toxic. Jacques Bellemanière owns a property near the Tourtel bridge, along the Plaine Saint-Nazaire road. He had his vegetable garden enclosed in March 1849, and the town council authorized him to install a water pipe from the trough at the Figuère bastion. Following the fashion of the time, Bellemanière invested his assets in the colonies, granting a loan of 12,000 francs on April 17, 1847 to Marc Guillaume Duverger and his wife, landowners and farmers in El Achour near Algiers, mortgaged against their 36-hectare estate. Duverger and his wife were to use the money to repay 11 debts. But by August 1, the doctor was struggling to get his interest paid. He instructs a certain Abrial, a bailiff in Algiers, to pay the arrears and to visit the estate to check its value and ensure that the Duvergers are managing it properly. Bellemanière authorizes Abrial to seize the El Achour estate. The seizure order was issued on October 27, and judgment was given against the Duvergers on January 27, 1848. Bellemanière knew he had 6 months to enforce it, knowing that his businessman Abrial had just died of dysentery in February. But a damning report on the property shows that its value has been grossly overestimated by the Duvergers, that most of the land is situated on barren hills and that the crops of yesteryear have given way to wasteland. What's more, real estate in the colonies was subject to agiotage, resulting in an appalling financial crisis that crippled business. The author asserts that today's rural properties have no market value; nobody wants to buy. In any case, the situation is such that expropriation is no longer an option.