Louis Lémery
Louis Lemery (born January 25, 1677 in Paris , † June 9, 1743 ibid) was a French medic and chemist.
Life
Louis Lémery was born the son of Nicolas Lémery (1645–1715) and studied medicine at the Sorbonne University in Paris . He completed his studies in 1698 with a doctorate in medicine, from 1700 he was a member of the Académie des sciences in Paris. In 1706 he discovered a process for the dendritic crystallization of metals. From 1708 he worked as a representative doctor at the Jardin du Roi ( Jardin des Plantes ). From 1710 he began as a doctor at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris and after 1722 he was the royal personal physician. From 1731 until his death he held the chair for chemistry at the Jardin du Roi and carried out his own research as an iatrochemist .
From the last two decades of Lémery's life, the dispute with Jacob Winslow about the question of whether monsters and deformities are already defective in the bud or whether they arise from a random and unplanned mixing of several germs is also remarkable.
Louis Lémery died in Paris in 1743 in the Jardin du Roi.
Works
- Traité des aliments, où l'on trouve la différence et le choix qu'on doit faire de chacun d'eux en particulier . 2nd Edition. Paris 1705 ( digitized on Gallica ).
- Dissertation on the nourriture des os, où l'on explique la nature et l'usage de la moelle, avec trois lettres sur le livre de génération des vers dans le corps de l'homme . Paris 1704 ( digitized on Gallica ).
- Reflexions et Observations sur une végétation chimique du fer et sur quelques expériences faites avec des liqueurs acides et alcalines et avec différents métaux substités au fer (1707)
- Sur un fetus monstreux . Mémoires de l'Academie Royal des Sciences, 1724 (published 1726)
- Deuxième mémoire sur les monstres . 1738
literature
- L ÉMERY , L OUIS in Ilse Jahn: History of Biology. Theories, methods, institutions, short biographies. Nikol VG Spectrum, Hamburg 2004; Page 885. ISBN 3-937872-01-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis Lémery in the WorldCat bibliographic database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lémery, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lemery, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French medic and chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 25, 1677 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 1743 |
| Place of death | Paris |