Paul Massot

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Paul Massot

Paul Massot (born August 15, 1800 in Perpignan , † March 30, 1881 in Paris ) was a French politician , doctor and malacologist .

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After he attended the Lycée Henri-IV , which at that time was still called Lycée Napoléon , he began to study medicine. He studied first in Paris and later in Montpellier . In 1823 he received his doctorate. Soon he was appointed chief surgeon at the municipal hospital in Montpellier.

In the politically troubled first half of the 19th century he was a member of most of the secret societies in his region. Because of his revolutionary ideas he was convicted in 1852, but acquitted two years later.

In 1872 he was elected President of the Department Council.

In 1876 he became a member of the Chambre de Versailles , the then parliament of France, and on December 2, 1877 he became a representative of his department. He kept this post until his death.

family

His family produced numerous famous medical professionals : Doctor Joseph Denoyes (the founder of modern radiology, died 1957), Doctor Paul Denoyes (an ophthalmologist, died 1968) and Doctor Paul de Lamer , who was elected mayor of Perpignan completely unexpectedly , and the the office declined to continue caring for its patients.

Malacology

In addition to his political commitment, Massot was enthusiastic about malacology , the science of molluscs . A number of documents testify to his extensive research, including a list of land and aquatic molluscs in his department, which contains 254 species, and a report on migratory snails in France, of which he discovered over 14 species. He described some new species, most notably of the genus Testacella . Nevertheless, the species Unio aleronii is a subspecies of the Unio mancus , which he described together with his colleague M. Companyo, the only discovery that is recognized and attributed to him.

Publications

  • 1841: Medical notes on the sulphurous water of the Moltig (Eastern Pyrenees).
  • 1845: Description of a new mollusc species (together with M. Companyo). Report of the Agricultural, Scientific and Literary Society of the Pyrénées-Orientales Department , VI: 234-235
  • 1845: Description of a species of water snail . Report of the Agricultural, Scientific and Literary Society of the Pyrénées-Orientales Department , VI: 236
  • 1848: Notes on an epidemic of severe, intermittent fevers in Salaces during December 1847 .
  • French testamentary cells , in Ann. malac. , I: 145-157, 1 pl.
  • 1872: List of molluscs living on land and in water in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales (nineteenth report of the Agricultural, Scientific and Literary Society of the Department of Pyrénées-Orientales , 116 p. + 1 pl. Perpignan.)