Abstract

WISNIAK, Jaime. NICOLAS DEYEUX. Rev. CENIC Cienc. Biol [online]. 2020, vol.51, n.1, pp. 69-83.  Epub Apr 01, 2020. ISSN 2221-2450.

Nicolas Deyeux (1745-1837), a French pharmacist, abandoned a prosperous professional practice to devote himself to research and academy. Among the many positions he occupied, the most special one was being the First Pharmacist of Napoleon. His most important researches (some with Parmentier), related to the composition of the milk of different mammals, the change experimented by blood during different illnesses, such as typhus and scurvy, the manufacture of beet sugar, the distillation of nutgalls, where he discovered gallic acid, indelible inks, ethyl nitrate, and mineral waters.

Keywords : digestion; gastric juice; physiology; sugar; urea.

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