Louis Lémery

Louis Lemery (* January 25, 1677 in Paris, † June 9, 1743 same place ) was a French physician and chemist.

Life

Louis Lemery was born as the son of Nicolas Lemery (1645-1715) and studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris medicine. He graduated in 1698 with a doctorate of medicine from, from 1700 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. In 1706 he discovered a method for dendritic crystallization of metals. From 1708 he was a justifiable physician at the Jardin du Roi (Jardin des Plantes ) operates. From 1710 he began working as a physician at Hôtel- Dieu de Paris, and after 1722 he was royal personal physician. From 1731 until his death he held the chair of chemistry at the Jardin du Roi and led as iatrochemists through its own investigations.

For the last two decades of life Lémerys also the confrontation with Jacob Winslow on the issue is remarkable, whether monsters and deformities are created defect in the bud, or whether they are created by a random and unplanned mixing of multiple nuclei.

Louis Lemery died in 1743 in Paris in the Jardin du Roi.

Works

• Traité des aliments, où l' on trouve la différence et le choix qu'on doit faire de chacun d' eux en particulier ( 1702)
• Dissertation sur la nourriture the os, où l' on explique la nature et l' usage de la moelle, avec trois lettres sur le livre de génération of vers dans le corps de l' homme (1704)
• Reflexions sur une et Observations végétation Chimique du fer et sur ​​quelques expériences faites avec des liqueurs et acidic alcalines et avec différents métaux substitues au fer (1707 )
• Sur un fetus monstreux. Mémoires de l' Academie Royal des Sciences, 1724 ( veröffentl. 1726)
• Deuxième mémoire sur les monstres. 1738