, the son of Stephen Le Clerc, a physician and Greek professor at
, the son of Stephen Le Clerc, a
physician and Greek professor at Geneva, was born Feb. 4,
1652, at that place, and educated in his father’s profession.
After studying at Montpellier and Paris, he took his doctor’s degree at Valentia in 1672, then returned to his own
country, and practised physic with great success. He was
also an excellent Greek and Latin scholar and antiquary,
and distinguished for his knowledge of medals. He published a “Bibliotheque Anatomique
” in conjunction with
Manget, in History of Medicine,
” which extends to the time of
Galen, was published at Geneva in 1696, but the best edition is that of Amsterdam, 1723, 4to. This work is much
praised by Dr. Freind, except the continuation to the sixteenth century. In 1704 he succeeded his father as counsellor of state in the republic of Geneva, after which he
practised very little. In 1715, the king of Sardinia, then
king of Sicily, being at Thonon in Savoy, consulted him
on his own health and that of his queen. The same year
he published his “Historia latorum lumbricorum,
” which
was afterwards published in English, 8vo. He died June
8, 1728.