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'''Guillaume Lamy''' (1644 - 1683) was a [[France|French]] physician best known for his sympathies with [[Epicurean]] philosophy, and for his influence on materialists such as [[La Mettrie]].
'''Guillaume Lamy''' (1644–1683) was a [[France|French]] physician best known for his sympathies with [[Epicurean]] philosophy, and for his influence on materialists such as [[La Mettrie]].


Lamy was doctor at the Medical Faculty of Paris and attracted both criticism and praise from fellow physicians for his attempts to take medicine in new directions based on Epicurean philosophy.<ref>Alan Charles Kors, "Monsters and the Problem of Naturalism in French Thought",
Lamy was doctor at the Medical Faculty of Paris and attracted both criticism and praise from fellow physicians for his attempts to take medicine in new directions based on Epicurean philosophy.<ref>Alan Charles Kors, "Monsters and the Problem of Naturalism in French Thought",
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Guillaume Lamy (1644–1683) was a French physician best known for his sympathies with Epicurean philosophy, and for his influence on materialists such as La Mettrie.

Lamy was doctor at the Medical Faculty of Paris and attracted both criticism and praise from fellow physicians for his attempts to take medicine in new directions based on Epicurean philosophy.[1] In 1682 he published Traité de l'antimoine.

References

  1. ^ Alan Charles Kors, "Monsters and the Problem of Naturalism in French Thought", Eighteenth-Century Life Volume 21, Number 2, May 1997, pp. 23-47