Pierre Joseph Buchoz
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Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz Paris
was a French
physician
, lawyer
and naturalist
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Buc'hoz become a doctor of medicine in Nancy in 1763. He was devoted to botany, but was also interested in the treatment of melancholy
and recommended music as therapy. He travelled throughout his native Lorraine
and published a 13-volume Histoire naturelle of the province. Teaching botany as well, he was demonstrator at the Collège Royal des Médecins de Nancy. Author of many works of botany he also studied animals (in particular birds) and minerals.
Paris
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was a French
France
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physician
Physician
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, lawyer
Lawyer
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and naturalist
Naturalist
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Buc'hoz become a doctor of medicine in Nancy in 1763. He was devoted to botany, but was also interested in the treatment of melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy
The Anatomy of Melancholy The Anatomy of Melancholy The Anatomy of Melancholy (Full title: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections...
and recommended music as therapy. He travelled throughout his native Lorraine
Lorraine (province)
The Duchy of Upper Lorraine was an historical duchy roughly corresponding with the present-day northeastern Lorraine region of France, including parts of modern Luxembourg and Germany. The main cities were Metz, Verdun, and the historic capital Nancy....
and published a 13-volume Histoire naturelle of the province. Teaching botany as well, he was demonstrator at the Collège Royal des Médecins de Nancy. Author of many works of botany he also studied animals (in particular birds) and minerals.
Partial list of publications
- Mémoire sur la manière de guérir la mélancolie par la musique.
- Medecine rurale et pratique, ou Pharmacopée végétale et indigene : ouvrage, egalement utile aux Seigneurs de Campagne, aux Curés, & aux Cultivateurs. Lacombe, Paris 1768 (Digital ed.)
- Histoire naturelle des animaux domestiques, 1770.
- Histoire naturelle du règne végétal, 1774.
- Histoire générale et économique des trois ordres, 1775.
- Herbier ou collection des plantes médicinales de la Chine d'après un manuscrit peint et unique qui se trouve dans la Bibliothèque de l'Empereur de la Chine, Paris : chez l'auteur, 1781.
- Les dons merveilleux et diversement coloriés de la nature dans le règne animal, ou collection d’animaux précieusement coloriés, Paris : chez l'auteur, 1782.
- L'art alimentaire ou méthode pour préparer les aliments les plus sains pour l'homme, Paris : chez l'auteur, 1783.
- Dictionnaire minéralogique de la France, 1785.
- Dictionnaire des plantes, arbres et arbustes de la République.
External links
- Gallica Downloads of Herbier ou collection des plantes médicinales de la Chine and L'art alimentaire