Scipion Abeille (died 9 December 1697) was a French
surgeon
In medicine, a surgeon is a medical doctor who performs surgery. Even though there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon is a licensed physician and received the same medical training as physicians before spec ...
and poet.
Abeille was born at
Riez in the
French province Provence
Provence is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which stretches from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the France–Italy border, Italian border to the east; it is bordered by the Mediterrane ...
, (now in
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (sometimes abbreviated as AHP; ; ; ), formerly until 1970 known as Basses-Alpes (, ), is a department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France, bordering Alpes-Maritimes and Italy to the east, Var to the sou ...
), and was the brother of
Gaspard Abeille.
Abeille's most famous work was ("Description of the Bones"), which was published in 1685. He also wrote , Paris, 1696.
External links
Dictionnaire géographique ... des Gaules ...
Year of birth missing
1697 deaths
17th-century French physicians
17th-century French poets
17th-century French male writers
French male poets
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