Pierre Pomet

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Pierre Pomet
Title page from Histoire Générale des Drogues, 1694

Pierre Pomet (born April 2, 1658 in Paris ; died November 18, 1699 in Paris) was a French pharmacist . He was the pharmacist of Louis XIV. His treatise on remedies was translated into English and German.

Works

  • Pierre Pomet: Histoire générale des drogues, traitant des plantes, des animaux, & des mineraux; ouvrage enrichy de plus de quatre cent figures en taille-douce tirées d'aprés nature; avec un discours qui explique leurs differens noms, les pays d'où elles viennent, la maniere de connoître les veritables d'avec les falsifiées, & leurs proprietez, où l'on découvre l'erreur des anciens & des modern ... par le sieur Pierre Pomet .... Jean-Baptiste Loyson & Augustin Pillon, Paris, 1694, OCLC 3620902 ( digitized version )
  • English translation: Pierre Pomet, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort , Nicolas Lémery : A compleat history of druggs: written in French by Monsieur Pomet, chief druggist to the present French king; to which is added what is further observable on the same subject, from Messrs. Lemery and Tournefort, divided into 3 classes, vegetable, animal and mineral, with their use in physick, chymistry, pharmacy and several other arts; done into English from the originals. First edition Bonwicke, London 1712, third edition Bonwicke, London 1737, OCLC 5042028 (digitized)
  • German translation: The sincere materialist and specerey dealer Or main and general description of their specereyen and materials: Wherein In three classes, of herbs, animals and materials, everything and everything, with which the Physica, Chymia, Pharmacia ... use to deal, understood and included ... Leipzig, 1717 ( digitized version )
  • German translation: Newly opened materials and natural products magazine, in it not only the materials, specereyen and trade goods, but also the vegetables, precious stones, minerals, marine plants, animals, & c. ... Wobey all herbs, trees, plants, roots, animals, stone & c. be presented in Kupffer. Leipzig: Moritz Georg Weidmann , 1727. ( digitized version )

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curtis Schuh's Biobibliography of Mineralogy: Pierre Pomet.
  2. ^ Christopher Duffin: Fossils as Drugs: pharmaceutical palaeontology. January 26, 2014, page 10 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Pomet, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pharmacist
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1699
Place of death Paris