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[CHEMISTRY]. GILBERT, Émile (1836-1914), pharmacist in Mouli - Lot 215
[CHEMISTRY]. GILBERT, Émile (1836-1914), pharmacist in Moulins and first historian of the pharmaceutical art and the profession of pharmacist. Officer of the Academy, laureate of learned societies and of the Institute of France, member of the Academy of Medicine. L.A.S. to the zoologist and botanist Edmond Perrier (1844-1921), director of the chair of Comparative Anatomy and of the Museum of Natural History. Moulins, April 13, 1912. 4 pp. in-8.
Gilbert sends his best wishes and greets his correspondent's brother, Rémy Perrier (1861-1936), also a famous zoologist and malacologist.
"I am still working! I am continuing an important work on opotherapy and contributing to the study of its historical origins, and its use in therapeutics from antiquity to relatively modern times. The communication of the first part was made to the Academy in the session of December 19, 1911. Already in the session of March 14 of the same year, I communicated to the Academy a work which had for title : Parallel between the Alchemical theories and those of radioactivity. And finally, in the session of the 2nd of this month of April, a memoir entitled Two memorable conflicts: The empiricists and the dogmatists (Antiquity); The dispute of the antimony (Modern times). It is my benevolent colleague Mr. Marty [Jean Hippolyte Marty (1835-1918), pharmacist and chemist, professor of pharmacy at the Val de Grâce and member of the Academy of Medicine], of the section of physics, medical chemistry, pharmacy, who makes the communications [...]".
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