Jean Riolan

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Jean Riolan the Younger

Jean Riolan the Younger (born February 20, 1580 in Paris , † February 19, 1657 there ) was a French doctor, anatomist and botanist.

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Jean Riolan the Younger was the son of the doctor of the same name Jean Riolan (1539-1605), a member of the Paris medical school. In 1604, Jean Riolan the Younger, who studied with his uncle Simon Piètre, among others, received a doctorate from the Paris Medical Faculty. In 1613 he was appointed professor of anatomy and botany in Paris. He was the personal physician of Henry IV (1553–1610) and Louis XIII. (1601–1643) and 1st doctor to the Queen Mother Maria de 'Medici (1575–1642). He followed this into exile in 1631 and did not leave her until her death. In 1642 he returned to Paris, where he was given the chair of anatomy, botany and pharmacy that had been set up especially for him.

Riolan was the most famous critic of Harvey , whose doctrine of the blood circulation he doubted mainly by denying the existence of a small circulation . In Riolan's opinion, the lungs could not withstand the rush of such an amount of blood as, according to Harvey , would have to enter the lungs through the pulmonary artery . Riolan doubted and also refuted the description of the lymphatic system by Thomas Bartholin .

Works (selection)

  • Anatomia seu anthropographia. Paris 1626 and 1649.
  • Encheiridium anatomicum et pathologicum in quo ex naturali constitutione partium, recessus a naturali statu demonstratur. Ad usum Theatri Anatomici adornatum . Editio quarta C. Meturas, Paris 1648 (digitized version )
  • Opuscula Anatomica Nova, quae nunc primum in lucem prodeunt. Instauratio magna physicae et medicinae per novam doctrinam de motu circulario sanguinis in corde. Accessere notae in J. Wallaei duas epistulas de circulatione sangunis. London 1649 (digitized)
  • Opuscula nova anatomica, judicium novum de venis lacteis tam mesentericis quam thoracicis, adversus Th. Bartholinum. Lymphatica vasa Bartholini refutata. Animadversiones secundae ad anatomiam reformatam Bartholini. Ejusdem dubia anatomica de lacteis thoracicis resoluta. Hepatis funerati et ressuscitati vindiciae. Authore Joanne Riolano. Paris 1653 (digitized version)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Riolan, Jean. 2005, p. 1253.
  2. ↑ Jean Riolan the Younger. Circulationis sanguinis primus author & inventor Harveus, quinam assertores hujus opinionis, quinam adversarii, Riolanus novam circulationem invenit . In: Opuscula anatomica nova ... London 1649 p. 20 ff. (Digitized version)
  3. ↑ William Harvey. Exercitationes duae anatomicae de circulatione sanguinis. Ad Joannem Riolanum filium… Authore Gulielmo Harveo … pp. 107–167 (digitized version ) In: Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus. Leiden 1637 (digitized version)
  4. ↑ Harvey. La circulation you sang. Des mouvements du coeur chez l'homme et chez les animaux. Two responses to Riolan. Translated by Charles Richet, Masson, Paris 1879 (digitized version )
  5. ↑ Thomas Bartholin. Vasa lymphatica: nuper Hafnia in animantibus inventa et hepatis exsequiae. Hakius, Copenhagen 1653 (digitized version )
  6. ^ Lymphatica anatomica Thomae Bartholini, refutata a Ioanne Riolano. In: Jean Riolan. Opuscula nova anatomica, judicium novum… Paris 1653, pp. 34–54 (digitized version )

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personal data
SURNAME Riolan, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riolan, Jean the Younger (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physician, anatomist and botanist
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1657
Place of death Paris