• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1 800 €

Réf : 83711

Order

Book

A question about this book?

Add to my virtual collection

Marcel PETIOT

Ordonnance médicale autographe signée prescrivant du chlorure de morphine et de l'opocalcium

S.n., Paris 8 octobre 1942, 10x16,5cm, une page sur un feuillet.

Signed autograph medical prescription for morphine chloride and opocalcium

Autograph medical prescription signed by the famous Docteur Petiot, written on his letterhead at 66 rue Caumartin and dated October 8, 1942. Stamped in red ink by the pharmacist Chapon, Boulevard de la Chapelle, Paris.
The infamous doctor prescribes morphine chloride and opocalcium guaiacol for his patient - a certain Henri Pain living at 66 rue des Flandres. We know of another prescription for heroin hydrochloride written for the same patient a few months earlier.
These two prescriptions closely spaced in time for heroin derivatives and morphine lead us to believe that they were fraudulent, since Dr. Petiot had in fact been convicted several times for helping drug addicts: "It is said that in certain bars in Montmartre and on the Champs-Elysées, a certain doctor in the Rue Caumartin writes prescriptions without difficulty, under the pretext of detoxification cures, from which pharmacists dispense drugs. [...] Petiot exposed himself to criticism because of his detoxification methods. Firstly, he doesn't eliminate the drug all at once. He continues to administer ever-lighter doses, mixed with painkillers. But drug addicts are tricksters. Many expose their good intentions to several doctors at once. This way of doing things enables them to maintain their artificial paradise by medical, and therefore legal, means." (Jean-Marc Varaut, L'Abominable Dr. Petiot, 1974)
A rare prescription by "Dr. Satan" at a time when he was already busy making his patients disappear, while also dabbling in a number of other illegal activities.
 

• 
• 
• 
•