摘要：

Paracelsan medicine and chemistry were made known in France by Roch le Baillif, Sieur de la Rivière (Falaise, ?—Paris, 5 November 1605), a Calvinist who became first physician to King Henri IV in 1594,1 and was also an astrologer. He encouraged and protected Beguin and invited Davisson to France: Le Demosterion De Roch Le Baillif Edelphe Medecin Spagiric. Auquel sont contenuz Trois cens Aphorismes Latins & Franois. Sommaire veritable de la Medecine Paracelsique, extraicte de luy en la plus part, par ledict Baillif, 4°, Rennes, Pierre le Bret. Avec priuilege du Roy, 1578 (viii ll., 190 pp., 2 fold. tables), Duveen, 343; in Latin, 8°, Paris, 1578; P. L. Jacob, Curiosités des Sciences Occultes; 1862, 17 (3 principles), 75 (reality of transmutation), III (astrological medicine). Lazarus Rivière (Montpellier; 1589–1655) was a different person, whose medical writings contain many excerpts from Sennert: Opera Medica Universa, f°, Lyons, 1663, and later eds., last in 1738; NBG, 1863, xlii, 344.

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