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Pen name
  
Doctor Quercy

Died
  
1928, Paris, France

Role
  
Doctor

Name
  
Augustin Cabanes

Nationality
  
French


Augustin Cabanes

Born
  
30 April 1862 Gourdon-en-Caorsin, France (
1862-04-30
)

Occupation
  
Doctor, Writer, Historian

Books
  
The Erotikon: Being an Illustrated Treasury of Scientific Marvels of Human Sexuality

Dr. Augustin Cabanès (30 April 1862 – 5 May 1928) was a French doctor, historian and author of numerous works of fiction and history. He was known for his books on historical medical mysteries.

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He studied medicine in Bordeaux and Paris, defending his doctorate in 1889 with a thesis involving Hydrastis canadensis. As a physician, he was associated with the Préfecture de la Seine. In 1894, he founded Chronique médicale, a popular journal dealing with unpublished articles on the health of literary and historical figures.

Partial list of works

  • Marat inconnu; l'homme privé, le médecin, le savant (1891)
  • Le cabinet secret de l'histoire, (1897), "Secret Cabinet of History Peeped into By a Doctor".
  • "Curious Bypaths of History: Being Medico-Historical Studies and Observations" (1898)
  • Balzac ignoré (1899)
  • Les Morts mysterieuses de l'histoire (1900)
  • Les indiscrétions de l'histoire (1900)
  • Mœurs intimes du passé (1900)
  • Les curiosités de la médecine (1900)
  • La névrose révolutionnaire (1906)
  • Au chevet de l'empereur (1924)
  • Les cinq sens (1926)
  • Dans les coulisses de l'histoire (1929).

    • References

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