ANDRY, NICOLAS. — French theologian and physician, brother of Claude, born in Lyon in 1658, died in Paris on 13 May 1742. At the age of 32 he abandoned the ecclesiastical state in order to devote himself, under the pseudonym of Boisregard, to the study of medicine. In 1724 he was appointed dean of the Paris faculty.
Among other works, he wrote Le régime de carême considéré par rapport à la nature du corps et des aliments (Paris 1710) and a Traité des aliments de carême (2 vols., Paris 1713): works in which numerous questions concerning abstinence and fasting are examined from a scientific as well as a moral perspective.
BIBL.: Hurter, IV, cols. 750–751; J.-B. Martin, s. V. in DThC, I, col. 1188; P. Bernard, s. V. in DHG, I, cols. 1806–1807. Ferruccio Liuzzi