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History, Medieval , Manuscripts, Medical as Topic/history , Italy , Physicians/history , PortugalABSTRACT
This first part of our study of the activities of Nicolas Lémery and his sons Louis and Jacques at the Académie Royale des Sciences begins with a description of the structure of the Académie as a result of its reformation in 1699, with an emphasis on the roles of its members as defined in its règlement. Then we concentrate on how Nicolas Lémery performed his duties at the Académie beginning from 1699 until his illness and death in 1715. Nicolas's most important contributions were his study on antimony, published as a treatise, and other memoirs on different subjects, mainly related to chemistry, which was the field in which he excelled and has remained famous. This first part is going to be followed by two parts where the activities of Nicolas's sons Louis and Jacques at the Académie are examined in a similar way.
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Academies and Institutes/history , Chemistry/history , France , History of Pharmacy , History, 17th Century , History, 18th CenturyABSTRACT
The first part of our study of the activities of Nicolas Lémery and his sons Louis and Jacques at the Académie royale des sciences began with a description of the structure of the Académie as a result of its reformation in 1699. Then we explained how Nicolas Lémery performed his duties at the Académie beginning from 1699 until his death in 1715. In this second part we are concentrating in a similar way on the activities of Nicolas's son Louis for the Académie, where he was a member from 1700 to 1743.
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Academies and Institutes/history , Chemistry/history , France , History, 17th Century , History, 18th CenturySubject(s)
Antimony/history , Sulfur/history , Drug Compounding/history , History, 17th Century , History, 18th Century , PowdersSubject(s)
Antimony/history , Drug Compounding/history , Materia Medica/history , France , History, 17th Century , History, 18th Century , Humans , PowdersSubject(s)
Astringents/history , Ointments/history , Abortion, Spontaneous/history , Abortion, Spontaneous/prevention & control , Astringents/therapeutic use , Female , History, 15th Century , History, 16th Century , History, 17th Century , History, Medieval , Humans , Italy , Ointments/therapeutic use , PregnancySubject(s)
Cosmetics/history , Materia Medica/history , Pharmacology/history , Europe , History, 17th Century , Humans , HungarySubject(s)
Famous Persons , History of Pharmacy , Medicine in the Arts , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , ItalyABSTRACT
We have described the 17th century dispute on the nature of the poison of the viper and its possible use as an antidote which arose between published in Britain at that time. We have also seen the reciprocal interest of Charas and members of the Royal Society in each other's work, and how Charas settled in England for a few years at the time of discrimination against the Huguenots in France. We prefer to leave any conclusions from this story to individual readers. However the dispute seems to be part of a transition from an animate view of the world to one where empirical methods do not appear to need to invoke 'spirits'. The story also seems to illustrate the limitation of experiments there can still be disagreement. If there is a the feeling that the subject is of interest, we can broaden it to cover scientific exchanges and connections between British and French Scholars in the field of pharmaceutical chemistry in the 17th and 18th centuries. At that time a number of pharmacists and scientists moved or corresponded between the two countries influencing one another. That was when modern chemistry gradually evolved out of traditional origins.
