The fable of “The Doctor and the Goose,” by Charles Chauvin Boisclair Deléry, D.M.P.

Charles Chauvin Boisclair Deléry, D.M.P. - doctor of medicine of Paris, was perhaps the prototypical representative of Creole physicians, practising medicine in Louisiana in the 1800s, who were regarded as being equally proficient with pen, pills or pistols. This paper presents accounts of Deléry's yellow fever debate with Jean-Charles Faget, D.M.P., and their near duel, and his famous duel with Joseph Rouanet. Because of the personal and …