Moyse Charas

Moyse Charas (or Brace ) is a pharmacist French, born in 1619 with Uzès and died in 1698 with Paris.

Biography

After traditional studies, then studies of apothecary, it opens a dispensary with Orange, that it leaves to come to Paris towards 1646.

In 1667, it carries out the first public manufacture of the Thériaque, antidote sails very about it at the 17th century. It also publishes the following year the Thériaque d' Andromachus , known under the title Natural history of the animals, the plants and the minerals which use the composition of thériaque of Andromachus, exempted and completed publicly in Paris .

In 1672, Antoine d' Aquin, intendant of the Garden of the king, recruits it for the station of under-demonstrator of chemistry for the garden to replace Christophe Glaser.

On the councils of Aquin, it makes appear in 1676, a galenic and chemical royal Pharmacopée . She is a great success and is translated in very many languages, of which Chinese.

In 1680, following the beginnings of the persecution which strikes the Protestants, Charas must leave France. It remains two or three years in Great Britain, where it obtains a title of doctor of medicine, before gaining the Netherlands in 1683. From there, it leaves in Spain where it exerts with Madrid. He is denounced with the Inquisition in 1686, but he is saved expulsion by his guard, the Dutch diplomat. He leaves then in Galicia, where he is again denounced in 1688 and is stopped. He finishes, after many interrogations, by converting with the Catholicisme and he is released in 1689.

He returns then to Holland, then to France in 1691, where he becomes member of the Academy of Science in 1692.

Its practice is still impressed weight of knowledge of the Moyen-âge and a little Alchimie. It specializes in particular on the Vipère S. In addition to their use in the preparation of the thériaque one, one considered at his time that the flesh of these animals was the best antidote with the envenimations caused by this species or others. Ignorance around their biology made of it true Panacée S. Charas publishes in 1669 the Nouvelles experiments on the viper, the effects of its venom, and the exquisite remedies that the artists can draw from the body of this animal where he studies his anatomy, his reproduction and his manners and, even if he certain erroneous beliefs, it continues to propagate establishes in particular a better knowledge of their therapeutic virtues. Charas was besides in opposition with Francesco Redi about the formation of venom, Charas affirming that the saliva of the animal became toxic only if this one were in anger, while Redi thought that it was constantly toxic.

Publications

Thériaque d' Andromachus, exempted and completed publicly in Paris by Moyse Charas, with the reformations and the observations of the author as well on the election and the preparation, as on the last mixture of all ingrédiens of this great composition. Alternate title: Natural history of the animals, the plants and the minerals which use the composition of thériaque of Andromachus, exempted and completed publicly in Paris, by Moyse Charas, with the reformations and the observations of the author (1668) Text in line
Nouvelles experiments on the viper, where one will see an exact description of all his parts, the source of his venom, his various effects and the exquisite remedies that the artists can draw from the viper, as well for the cure of its bites as for that several other diseases (1669) Text in line
galenic and chemical royal Pharmacopée (1676) Text in line
galenic and chemical royal Pharmacopeia (second re-examined and corrected edition, 2 volumes, 1681) Text in line 1 2
Opera (3 volumes, 1684) Text in line 1. '' Pharmacopea regia galenica '' 2. '' Pharmacopea regia chymica '' 3. '' Historiam naturalem ''
Thériaque d' Andromacus: with a particular description of the plants, animals and minerals employ with this great composition (new re-examined and increased edition, 1685) Text in line

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