Jean-Jacques Paulet, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French mycologist
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Place of Birth: Anduze, Occitania, France
About Jean-Jacques Paulet
- Jean-Jacques Paulet (26 April 1740 – 4 August 1826) was a French mycologist. Paulet was born in Anduze, France and studied medicine in Montpellier, where he received his PhD in March 1764.
- He published in Paris in 1765 a book titled d’Histoire de la petite vérole, avec les moyens d’en préserver les enfants...
- (History of smallpox, with the means to protect children ...), which was followed by a French translation of the book on smallpox by Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (ninth or tenth century).
- He completed this series of works by three more books, published in Paris between 1768 and 1776, in which he outlined wide-scale measures of smallpox protection.
- Paulet was interested in ergotism and published several studies in Mémoires de l’Académie de médecine alongside such scientist as Henri Alexandre Tessier (1741–1837) and Charles Jacques Saillant (1747–1814).
- He was also known for his opposition to the animal magnetism. In 1805 he published a treatise on the bite of asp viper and in 1815 a review of the history of medicine by Sprengel.
- His expertise in mycology was summarized in Traité complet sur les champignons (1775) which was considered a seminal work on fungi.
- It will be followed in 1791 by Traité complet sur les champignons and two other books on botany: Examen de l’ouvrage de M.
- Stackhouse sur les genres de plantes de Théophraste (1816) and La Botanique ou Flore et Faune de Virgile (1824).
- Paulet was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in the section of medicine and surgery on 22 October 1821.
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