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Pierre Tarin (1725–1761) was a French doctor, writer, and translator, born in Courtenay. He is best known for his contributions to Encyclopédie by Diderot and D'Alembert.

Publications

• Problemata anatomica, utrum inter arterias mesentericas, venasqne lacteas, immediatum datur commercium, Parisiis, 1748. in-8°.
• Anthropotomie, ou l’art de disséquer, Paris, 1750, deux vol. in-12.
• Adversaria anatomica, Parisiis, 1750, in-8°, avec figures.
• Démosgraphie, ou description des ligaments du corps humain, Paris, 1752, in-8°.
• Éléments de physiologie traduits du Latin de Haller, Paris, 1752,in-8°.
• Dictionnaire anatomique, suivi d’une Bibliothèque anatomique et physiologique, Paris, 1753, in-4°.
• Ostéographie , ou description des os de l’adulte, du fœtus, etc. Paris, 1753, in-4°.
• Myographie ou description des muscles, Paris, 1753, in-4°.
• Observations de médecine et de chirurgie, Paris, 1755, 3 vol. in-12.

Articles in Encyclopédie

• "Bile", v. II, p. 249b, 218 l.
• "Teeth", v. IV, 320 l.

References

1. Kafker, Frank A.: Notices sur les auteurs des 17 volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie (suite et fin). Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année (1990) Volume 8 Numéro 8 pp. 120–121

• Antoine Laurent Jessé Bayle, Biographie médicale, t. 2, Paris : Adolphe Delahaye, 1855, p. 738.

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