Pierre Pelletan

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Pierre Pelletan (born January 6, 1782 in Paris , † August 15, 1845 in Brussels ) was a French doctor .

Life

Pierre Pelletan was a son of the French surgeon Philippe-Jean Pelletan and Elizabeth Julie Dubus. From the age of 14 he attended the polytechnic school and then became a laboratory assistant to the physicist Jacques Alexandre César Charles . A little later he was teaching a general chemistry course himself. Since he already had some anatomical and surgical knowledge, his father had him accepted as a military surgeon in 1799 so that he could take part in the Zurich campaign . Appointed assistant doctor in 1803, he performed surgical services under the guidance of his father.

In 1805 Pelletan founded a factory for the artificial production of soda in Rouen . François Antoine Henri Descroizilles , inventor of sample stills and the alkalimeter, became his partner and at times his mentor. Pelletan left Rouen in 1813, where he married Sophie de Barthès (* 1776; † 1832), widow of Baron Jean Michel de Kinkelin, on July 10 of that year, and received his doctorate in Paris. The following year he worked as a doctor at the Val-de-Grâce Hospital and soon after at the Montaigu Hospital. For his successful treatment of the soldiers who were infected by typhus, which was rampant at the time , he received the Cross of Honor and became royal personal physician. At the same time he gave lectures on chemistry, physiology, pharmacology and anatomy.

When the École de médecine was dissolved on November 30, 1822, Pelletan was appointed provisional administrator of the faculty by an ordinance. On February 2, 1823 he became professor of medical physics. He later presided over medical juries. Dismissed in 1830 with six of his colleagues, he was reinstated in his offices on March 19, 1831 after a public examination. In 1843 he was quiesced after unfortunate speculations, whereupon he went to Belgium. He received a pension of 2,800 francs from the Paris University. In August 1845, at the age of 63, he died of tuberculosis in Brussels . His adopted stepson, Baron Kinkelin, made a name for himself as Jules-Pierre Pelletan de Kinkelin.

Works

Pelletan's reputation as a writer was based on his Dictionnaire de chimie médicale (2 vols., Paris 1822–1824) and his Traité élémentaire de physique générale et médicale (2 vols., Paris 1822; 3rd ed. 1837–38). He also participated in the drafting of the Dictionnaire des sciences médicales .

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ This date of death is given in the Grande Encyclopédie (vol. 26, p. 274 ( online )), whereas in the Nouvelle Biographie générale (vol. 39, p. 498) August 11, 1845.
personal data
SURNAME Pelletan, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1782
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1845
Place of death Brussels