Joseph Duchesne

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Joseph Duchesne , Latinized Quercetanus (* around 1544 in Esturre, Armagnac , † August 20, 1609 in France) was a French alchemist , medic and Paracelsus follower ( iatrochemistry ).

Duchesne was the son of a doctor and studied medicine in Montpellier and Basel , where he received his doctorate in 1573. He then practiced in Lyon, where he married the wealthy heiress Anne Tire (daughter of a member of the council and granddaughter of Guillaume Budé ). He was also a doctor to the Duke of Anjou. Being a Calvinist, he left Lyon. In 1580 he moved to Kassel and later to Geneva, where he received citizenship in 1584. In 1587 he became a member of the Council of 200, after which he carried out various diplomatic missions (in Switzerland), and in 1594 of the small council. After the Edict of Nantes he returned to France in 1598 and moved to Paris, where he became Henry IV's doctor . He was also used for diplomatic missions in Switzerland.

In 1603 the medical faculty in Paris sentenced him and Théodore Turquet de Mayerne for their Paracelsist views and deviation from Galen's teaching .

In 1604 he visited Kassel at the invitation of Landgrave Moritz and gave demonstrations in his laboratory.

After his death, his daughter moved to Geneva.

Fonts

  • Sclopetarius 1576 (treats gunshot wounds), digitized version (edition of 1600)
  • Iosephi Quercetani medici Opera medic, 1596, digitized
  • De priscorum philosophorum verae medicinae materia, 1603, digitized
  • Ad veritatem hermeticae medicinae ex Hippocratis veterumque decretis ac therapeusi, 1604, digitized
  • Pharmacopoea dogmaticorum restituta pretiosus selectisque Hermeticorum floribus abunde illustrate, Leipzig 1607, digitized
  • Le Ricchezze della riformata Farmacopea del Giuseppe Quercetano. Nouamente di Favella Latina traportata in Italiana da Giacomo Ferrari, Venice: Guerigli, 1619. Digitized
  • Pharmacopeia restituta, Strasbourg: Zetzner, 1625.
  • Diaeteticon polyhistoricum, 1607, German version by Johann Adolph Ringelstein
  • Quercetanus redivivus, hoc est, ars medica dogmatico-hermetica Vol. 1–3, Frankfurt, Beyer 1648, German translation

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personal data
SURNAME Duchesne, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quercetanus, Josephus; Du Chesne, Joseph; Chesne, Joseph you
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French alchemist and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1544
PLACE OF BIRTH Esturre, Armagnac
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1609
Place of death France