François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise

François Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise (5 July 1780 in Paris – 13 March 1851 in Paris) was a French physician, botanist and mycologist.

In 1803 he obtained his medical doctorate, afterwards serving as chef de clinique at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris. He was a member of the Académie nationale de médecine and a correspondent member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon (1824–1851).[1]

He was the taxonomic authority of the lichenized fungi genus Lasallia [2] and of the botanical genera Corvisartia (family Asteraceae), Lerouxia (family Primulaceae) and Robertia (family Ranunculaceae).[3]

Written works

With Adrien Jacques de Lens, he was co-author of a medical dictionary, titled "Dictionnaire universel de matière médicale et de thérapeutique générale", published in seven volumes from 1829 to 1846. Other written efforts by Mérat de Vaumartoise include:

  • Traité de la colique métallique, vulgairement appelée colique des peintres, des plombiers, de Poitou, etc.; avec une description de la colique végétale, et un mémoire sur le tremblement des doreurs sur métaux, (Paris: Méquignon-Marvis, 1812).[4]
  • Nouvelle flore des environs de Paris suivant le système sexuel de Linnée, avec l'indication des vertus des plantes usitées en médecine, des détails sur leur emploi pharmaceutique. Paris : Méquignon-Marvis, 1812.
  • Éléments de botanique, à l'usage des personnes qui suivent les cours du Jardin du Roi et de la Faculté de médecine de Paris. Paris : Crochard, 1822.[1]
  • Nouvelle flore des environs de Paris : suivant le système sexuel de Linèe; avec l'indication, des vertus des plantes usitèes en Mèdecine T. 1 La cryptogamie : Paris Mèquignon-Marvis 1836.[5]
  • Revue de la flore parisienne, suivie du texte du « Botanicon parisiense » de Vaillant avec les noms linnéens en regard. Paris : J.-B. Baillière, 1843.[1]
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References
  1. Sociétés savantes de France biographical/bibliographical information
  2. Calflora The Eponym Dictionary of Southern African Plants, Plant Names L-O
  3. IPNI List of plants described and co-described by Mérat de Vaumartoise.
  4. English Wikisource bibliography
  5. OCLC WorldCat Nouvelle flore des environs de Paris...La cryptogamie.
  6. IPNI.  Mérat.
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