ABSTRACT
Whilst many medical practitioners were affected by the Revolution, Ramel is remarkable as a provincial physician by leaving a record of his active role in this tumultuous period. Ultimately, he failed to reconcile his revolutionary fervour with the changing social and political environments, which followed and which led to his demise as a provincial leader. His ambition to make a mark in the Republic of Letters, in particular in the medical sphere, appears to have faded as he ceased to publish from the time he was in the military, except for his second book, at a time when he might have had time to do so. The demise of the Société royale de médicine was probably a factor in his decision to cease writing essays.
