PMID: 30005453Jul 1, 2016Paper

L'Ennemi de la Mort, the fight against the fevers'realm

Histoire des sciences médicales
Geraldine Hetzel

Abstract

The plot of the Ennemi de la Mort, published in 1908, one year after the death of the author Eugne Le Roy, is briefly presented: in 1820, the young practitioner Daniel Charbonniere, who is of Huguenot origin, comes home to the French "Double"-region in Dordogne. For a while, he is enticed by his cousin Minna de Lege, having saved her life. But, as Charbonniere thinks that their inequality of wealth is a barrier, he disregards her desire, which leads the very devout cousin to marry the nephew of her spiritual adviser. Daniel Charbonniere shows himself a disinterested physician, dedicated to the ill peasants suffering from malaria caused by the waters of the Double marshes. He aims to obtain the dry draining of these pools., With the help of a mayor and a priest, the physician also distributes inoculation against poxes and, otherwise, saves the life of a young lady, who later on becomes his companion. Confronted with charlatanry and the hostility of the landlords owning the pools, Daniel Charbonniere is beaten up by the peasants. Dispossessed by his very embittered cousin Minna, the physician goes to live with his wife and children in a decrepit sheep shelter. The persecutions go on and the peasants, instigated by the clergymen, ...Continue Reading

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