Louis Lémery

Louis Lémery (1677 to 1743) was a French physician, botanist and chemist, born and died in Paris. He was the son of the chemist Nicolas Lémery. In 1710 he was appointed physician at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, and in 1730 he became chemistry chair at the Jardin du Roi, succeeding Étienne François Geoffroy. He wrote the Traité des aliments in 1702 and a Dissertation sur la nature des os in 1704, and he published a number of papers on chemical topics, including chemical analysis, monstrous births (birth defects) and the anatomy of fetuses. In 1706 he married Catherine Chapot, with whom he had one daughter. His career ran from clinical medicine at the Paris hospital to the chemistry chair of the royal garden, the same chair once held by Geoffroy.