[Bouchardat and hygienic medicine].
Bouchardat (1806-1886) got his medical degree in Paris in 1832. As chief pharmacist at the Hôtel-Dieu (Paris), he set up chemical analysis for blood and urine. He inaugurated medical analysis and biochemistry, investigating the digestive process on dogs. In 1852, he was made as professor for hygiene at the Faculty of medicine. Then, he taught for fourty years, publishing extensive works on pharmacology, toxicology, nutrition and agronomics. He gave a modern view on individual and collective needs for food that he considered as the main aspect of hygiene. He was a member of the Académie de médecine and the Société centrale d'agriculture.
Trépardoux
Francis
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Ségal
Alain
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D000818:Animals; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D006920:Hygiene / Q000266:history*; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000266:history