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Guy-Crescent Fagon (11 May 1638 – 11 March 1718) was a French physician and botanist. He came from nobility and his uncle, Guy de La Brosse, had founded the Royal Gardens. Fagon was director of the gardens too. [1] . His substitute professors were Gilles-François Boulduc, Antoine de Saint-Yon and Étienne François Geoffroy. [2]
Mar 30, 2017 · Guy-Crescent Fagon (1638-1718) was the physician of Louis XIV of France. He was made an honorary member of the Academie des sciences in 1669 and ran the Jardin du Roi until his death. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy-Crescent_Fagon accessed 30th March 2017. Dates: to. Occupation: Unknown.
THE year 1638 saw the birth of two notable French botanists, Guy-Crescent Fagon, who was born in Paris on May 11, 1638, and Pierre Magnol, who was born at Montpellier on June 8, 1638. Both...
Dec 1, 2014 · The events surrounding the treatment of the King’s anorectal suppurative disease have been well documented. Three physicians kept a daily record of the King’s health from his earliest infancy to the year 1711 (Antoine Vallot from 1652 to 1671, Antoine d’Aquin from 1672 to 1693, and Guy-Crescent Fagon for the remaining period).
- Robert D. Fry
- 2014
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According to Fontenelle’s academic éloge of Tournefort, his reputation as a botanist reached the ears of Guy-Crescent Fagon, physician to the royal family and director of the Jardin du Roi in Paris, who recruited the young botanist to Paris in 1683.
Personal name as subject. Guy Crescent Fagon. None Louis XIV. George Mareschal. In this paper we sketch the portrait of Professor Guy Crescent Fagon, first doctor of Louis XIV placing emphasis to his vesical stone and to his lithotomy by the first surgeon of the King, George Mareschal.
