Nicolas de Blégny

He was appointed surgeon of Queen Maria Theresa of Spain in 1678, then physician of King Louis XIV in 1682.

[1] He was also the founder of the first medical journal, the Nouvelles découvertes sur toutes les parties de la médecine, as early as 1679, though to begin with it simply reported the transactions of his society, the Academy of Recent Discoveries in Medicine.

[2] He also published Le livre commode des adresses de Paris pour 1692 under the pseudonym Abraham du Pradel.

L'Art de guérir les maladies vénériennes, Paris, at the author and Jean Dhoury.

1679 La Doctrine des Rapports de Chirurgie, Lyon, at Thomas Amaulry and Denis Nion's widow.