Pierre-Isaac Poissonnier
Pierre-Isaac Poissonnier (born July 5, 1720 in Dijon , † September 15, 1798 in Paris ) was a French medic.
Life
In 1745 Poissonnier received a chair in medicine at the Collège royal in Paris. From 1756 he was inspector of the military hospitals in France and a military doctor. From 1758 to 1761 he was on a diplomatic mission in St. Petersburg at the court of Empress Elisabeth . After his return he was a senior physician at the court of Louis XV. During this time he developed a method for seawater desalination , which was later used by Bougainville during his circumnavigation of the world to obtain drinking water. In 1764 Poissonnier became General Inspector of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy in the Navy and the French colonies. In his later years he dealt critically with animal magnetism , for example in his correspondence with Benjamin Franklin .
From 1765 he belonged to the Académie royale des sciences . In 1759 he was elected an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and in 1774 a Fellow of the Royal Society . He was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences .
Web links
- Entry for Poissonnier, Pierre Isaac (1720 - 1798) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
- List of publications at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Franklin Papers: To Benjamin Franklin from Pierre-Isaac Poissonnier, April 26, 1784. National Archives, accessed on February 23, 2020 (English).
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter P. Académie des sciences, accessed on February 23, 2020 (French).
- ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Poissonnier, Pierre-Isaac. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed February 23, 2020 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poissonnier, Pierre-Isaac |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French medic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1720 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dijon |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1798 |
| Place of death | Paris |