The connection of chemistry and medicine : address at the opening of the medical classes, Tuesday, October 21st, 1890 / by John Ferguson, M.A., LL.D., F.S.A., Regius Professor of Chemistry in the University of Glasgow.

  • Ferguson, John, 1838-1916.
Date:
1895
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    ciples of Galen is usually kept in the background. But the outcome of the use of what were called chemical or spagyric remedies was the establish- ment of schools where instruction in the preparation of these remedies, or chemistry as it was called, was given. As far back as 1572, a well-known French naturalist and alchemist, Jacques Gohory by name, a thorough-going Paracelsian, and editor of some of his works, had a herb garden in the neighbour- hood of Paris, where several notable physicians used to assemble to discuss questions of natural history, and to prosecute chemical researches in the laboratory. Out of this garden and these meetings grew ultimately the Jardin des Plantes, and the medical and science school which forms part of it, and in which a long line of distinguished chemists has flourished. There was a chemical laboratory, too, at Sedan, and a pupil, by name John Beguinus, who had been trained there, settled in Paris at the very beginning of the seventeenth century—about 1601 —opened a laboratory, where he gave practical instruction as well as lectures, and for the use of his students, “to save him the trouble of dictating his methods, and them the trouble of writing- them ” compiled a little manual, the first real chemical text-book that ever was published. It was so