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BONET

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or Bonnet, Theophilus,** an eminent physician, born at Geneva, March 5, 1620. He took his degree in 1643, and then applied himself to the practice of his profession, in which he acquired great reputation. On retiring from practice, he found leisure to collect all the observations he had made during an experience of forty years. But his principal title to distinction is rather as a medical writer than a practitioner, and as having in some measure created pathological anatomy, which Morgagni afterwards illustrated. He died March 29, 1689. His most valuable work is *Splechrectum, sive Anatomia Practica ex cadaveribus morbo denatis*, a valuable mine of morbid anatomy. The best edition is that of Magnetus, Geneva, 3 tom. folio, 1700. His other works are, *Mercurius Compositatus*, Geneva, 1682, fol.; *Zodiacus Medico-Gallicus*; *Medicina Septentrionalis Collatitia*, Geneva, 1684-86, 2 vols. fol.; *Polygones, sive Thesaurus Medico-Practicus*, Geneva, 1690-93, 3 vols. fol.; *Theodori Turqueti de Mayerne Tractatus de Arthritide*, Geneva, 1671, 1674, 12mo, Jacobi Rohaultii Tractatus Physicus*, Geneva, 1674, 8vo, both translations; *Bibliothèque de Médecine et de Chirurgie*, Geneva, 1670, 4 vols.