Antoine de Saint-Yon

Antoine de Saint-Yon was a French physician and chemist of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Biography

Antoine de Saint-Yon passed his medical thesis in 1671 with the title: An instante febrium excandescentia, accessione, purgandum?[1]

In 1677, he practised as a docteur regent[note 1] at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris[2] and was dean from 1704 to 1706.[3] He was médecin par quartier of the King Louis XVI.[4][note 2]

He was a substitute professor for Guy-Crescent Fagon at the chair of chemistry in the Jardin du Roi in 1695, 1707 and 1715.[5] Among his students were Sébastien Vaillant[6] and Gilles-François Boulduc.[7]

Antoine de Saint-Yon died without having left any writing on medicine or chemistry.

Notes

  1. ^ Title formerly given to doctors who were professors in theology, law or medicine of Paris.
  2. ^ Physician per quarter: a physician who serves with a sovereign per quarter year.

References

  1. ^ de Sainct-Yon, Antoine (1671). An instante febrium excandescentia, accessione, purgandum? (Praes. Joanne Robert. Cand. Antonio De Sainct-Yon) (in Latin).
  2. ^ de Saint-André, François (1677). Entretiens sur l'acide et sur l'alkali (in French).
  3. ^ Freeman, Sarah Elizabeth (1946). "The Jetons of the Deans of the Old Faculty of Medicine in Paris". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 19 (1): 48–95. ISSN 0007-5140. JSTOR 44442879. PMID 21015991.
  4. ^ Winslow, Jacques-Bénigne; Maar, Vilhelm; Royal College of Physicians of London. n 80046799 (1902). L'autobiographie de J.B. Winslow (in French). Paris : Octave Doin. p. 96.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Histoire de la chimie au Muséum". Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Micro-organismes (MCAM) (in French). 2017-11-28. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
  6. ^ Vaillant, Sébastien (1727). Botanicon parisiense ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes, que se trouvent aux environs de Paris, compris dans la Carte de la Prévôté & de l'Élection de la dite Ville par Danet Gendre année MDCCXXII (in French). chez Jean & Herman Verbeek et Balthazar Lakeman.
  7. ^ Dorveaux, Paul (1931). "Apothicaires membres de l'Académie Royale des Sciences : IV. Gilles-François Boulduc ; V. Etienne-François Geoffroy". Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie. 19 (74): 113–126. doi:10.3406/pharm.1931.9919.


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