Guy de La Brosse
Guy de La Brosse (1586 – 1641 in Paris), was a French botanist, medical doctor, and pharmacist.
Biography
Guy de La Brosse, medical doctor to Louis XIII, obtained royal permission on 6 July 1626 to found, in Paris, a herb garden destined to culture plants useful to medicine to replace those of
This garden, called "Jardin du roi" (Garden of the King), would not be officially inaugurated until 1640, more than 5 years after its actual creation.[3] To calm the university faculty, the king only authorised one teacher without diploma at the garden, with this choice being left to the garden supervisor.
In 1628 La Brosse published "Dessin du Jardin Royal pour la culture des plantes médicinales" ("Design of the Royal Garden for the culture of medical plants"). It was published again with five supplementary woodcuts in 1640. It contained the nature, virtue and use of the medical plants, a catalogue of the plants currently being cultivated and a plan of the garden.
The Jardin du Roi is now known as the Jardin des Plantes (Garden of Plants).
Works
- Traicté de la peste, fait par Guy de La Brosse,... avec les remèdes préservatifs (1623)
- Dessin du Jardin Royal pour la culture des plantes médicinales (1928)
- De la nature, vertu, et utilité des plantes (1628)
- Avis pour le Jardin royal des plantes (1931)
- L'ouverture du Jardin royal de Paris (1640)
References
- ISSN 0021-1753.
- OCLC 8591273.
- ^ "Plantes et médecine, (al)chimie et libertinisme chez Guy de la Brosse — Medica — BIU Santé, Paris". www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
- ^ "The Galileo Project, La Brosse, Guy de". galileo.rice.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
External links
- (in French) Guy de la Brosse's biography and works digitized by the BIUM (Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de médecine et d'odontologie, Paris), see its digital library Medic@.