Johann Friedrich Cartheuser

Johann Friedrich Cartheuser (September 29, 1704 – June 22, 1777) was a German

Biography

Cartheuser was born at

His chief merit consists in having introduced the method of submitting the various substances of materia medica to a strict ordeal of chemical analysis. He analyzed a great number of plants and other substances, and gave an exact account of the elements which enter into their composition.

Works

• Elementa Chymiæ Medicæ Dogmatico-experimentalis (Halle, 1736)
• Fundamenta Materiæ Medicæ Generalis et Specialis (2 vols., Frankfurt, 1749–50) Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
• De Morbis Endemicis Libellus (Frankfurt, 1772)

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References

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External links

• Alphons Oppenheim (1876), "Cartheuser, Johann Friedrich", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 4, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 36