Chaumenton and the medical flora of the eighteenth century
Chaumeton, a Bougueillois botanist
Born in Bourgueillois, François-Pierre Chaumeton was a doctor and botanist born on September 20, 1775 in Chouzé-sur-Loire.
He became a surgeon at the age of 18 in the Western army.
The doctor visits Italy and is passionate about ancient literature, especially Greek. But a fire destroyed his library and all his notes.
Hyperemotional, Chaumeton could not stand the bloody scenes and became a pharmacist in the health service; he liked to study the botanical and zoological wonders.
He then worked for the Encyclopedic Store, the Medical Library, the Universal Journal of Medical Sciences and various other publications.
He participated in the Flore médicale alongside Jean Louis Marie Poiret (1755-1834).
He is above all the editor of the Dictionary of Medical Sciences entrusted to him by the publisher Panckouke.
Chaumeton is the abbreviation of his name in botany.
We wanted to make his botanist work known through an exhibition in the Saint-Pierre-de-Bourgueil Abbey. Beautiful works of medical flora are kept in the Jean Chamboissier public library of Bourgueil.
