Antoine de Jussieu

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Antoine de Jussieu (July 6th 1686, Lyon - April 22nd 1758, Paris) is a Botaniste and Médecin French. He, inter alia, tried out the effect of certain plants against the Fièvre S.

Antoine, brother of Bernard and Joseph, undertakes initially studies of Théologie before discovering the Botanique. He then decides to undertake studies of Médecine in Montpellier. Its passion leads it to herborize in Normandy and Brittany. These are the research which point out it by Guy Fagon, doctor of the king and superintendent of the Jardin of the king. Fagon recommends it for the post of professor of botany of the Garden of the king, left vacant by the death of Tournefort in 1709, whose Antoine was a large admiror. In 1718, he becomes member of the Royal Society.

Antoine de Jussieu is allowed with the Academy of Science in 1711. Pierre Baux will become his corresponding to the Academy in 1757.

In 1716, Fagon entrusts to him a mission in Spain and with the Portugal in order to collect plants there. Antoine will ask his Bernard brother to accompany it. On its return, it makes appear in the Mémoires of the Academy of Science the relation of its voyage.

Little time afterwards, it is in charge of the course of medical matter at the Medical college of Paris. Its teaching will be the object a posthumous publication, in 1772, entitled the Traité virtues of the plants .

It is Antoine de Jussieu who, in 1720, allows the introduction of the Caféier into the the Antilles.

Parallel to its activity of botanist, Jussieu forever ceased exerting medicine. This double speciality enables him to try out the interest of many species like the bark of Quassia, a Simaroubacée, against the fevers.

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