Antoine de Saint-Yon explained

Antoine de Saint-Yon was a French physician and chemist of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Biography

Antoine de Saint-Yon passed his medical thesis in 1671 with the title: French: An instante febrium excandescentia, accessione, purgandum?^[1]

In 1677, he practised as a French: docteur regent^[2] at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris^[3] and was dean from 1704 to 1706.^[4] He was French: médecin par quartier of the King Louis XVI.^{[5] [6]}

He was a substitute professor for Guy-Crescent Fagon at the chair of chemistry in the Jardin du Roi in 1695, 1707 and 1715.^[7] Among his students were Sébastien Vaillant^[8] and Gilles-François Boulduc.^[9]

Antoine de Saint-Yon died without having left any writing on medicine or chemistry.

Notes and References

1. Book: de Sainct-Yon, Antoine . An instante febrium excandescentia, accessione, purgandum? (Praes. Joanne Robert. Cand. Antonio De Sainct-Yon). . 1671 . la.
2. Title formerly given to doctors who were professors in theology, law or medicine of Paris.
3. Book: de Saint-André, François . Entretiens sur l'acide et sur l'alkali . 1677 . fr.
4. Freeman . Sarah Elizabeth . The Jetons of the Deans of the Old Faculty of Medicine in Paris . 1946 . Bulletin of the History of Medicine . 19 . 1 . 48–95 . 44442879 . 21015991 . 0007-5140.
5. Book: Winslow . Jacques-Bénigne . L'autobiographie de J.B. Winslow . Maar . Vilhelm . Royal College of Physicians of London. n 80046799 . 1902 . Paris : Octave Doin . 96 . fr.
6. Physician per quarter: a physician who serves with a sovereign per quarter year.
7. Web site: 2017-11-28 . Histoire de la chimie au Muséum . 2022-01-06 . Molécules de Communication et Adaptation des Micro-organismes (MCAM) . fr.
8. Book: Vaillant, Sébastien . Botanicon parisiense ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes, que se trouvent aux environs de Paris, compris dans la Carte de la Prévôté & de l'Élection de la dite Ville par Danet Gendre année MDCCXXII . 1727 . chez Jean & Herman Verbeek et Balthazar Lakeman . fr.
9. Dorveaux . Paul . 1931 . Apothicaires membres de l'Académie Royale des Sciences : IV. Gilles-François Boulduc ; V. Etienne-François Geoffroy . Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie . 19 . 74 . 113–126 . 10.3406/pharm.1931.9919.