Henri Leclerc
Henri Leclerc ( October 5, 1870 - March 15, 1955 ) was a French doctor and author . He introduced the term phytotherapy for the scientific continuation of herbal medicine.
Life
Henri Leclerc lived and practiced in Paris. He published numerous articles in the medical journal La Presse médicales , which resulted in his book Précis de phytothérapie ( Handbook of Phytotherapy ) in 1922 . He first used the term phytotherapy in 1913. Eric Frederick William Powell introduced it to English in 1934 and Rudolf Fritz Weiss introduced it to German a little later.
Leclerc already distinguished between a scientifically oriented and a traditional herbal medicine.
Fonts (selection)
- Précis de phytotherapy: essais de thérapeutique par les plantes françaises. Elsevier Masson, 1999. First edition 1922. ISBN 2-225-85870-5
- L'Aubépine: "Cratoegus oxycantha". Son histoire, ses propriétés thérapeutiques. Monnoyer, 1922.
- La Sauge: "Salvia officinalis". Monnoyer, 1934.
- with Paul Peyre, Henri Queuille: Sur l'olivier, l'histoire et la légende, les chantres de l'olivier, l'arbre, ses-fruits, son huile, usages médicaux et pharmaceutiques. Jouve, 1938.
- Les fruits de France et les principaux fruits des colonies: historique, diététique et thérapeutique. 2nd edition, Amédée Legrand et Cie, Paris 1947.
- with François Decaux: Formulaire de phytothérapie. 2nd edition, Amédée Legrand et Cie, Paris 1956.
Web links
- Literature by and about Henri Leclerc in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf Fritz Weiss: Textbook of Phytotherapy. 6th edition, Hippokrates, Stuttgart 1985. ISBN 3-7773-0675-4 , p. 12
- ↑ Phytotherapy in the Encyclopædia Britannica
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Leclerc, Henri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1870 |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 1955 |