Charles Bouvard

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Charles Bouvard (1572-1658) was a French chemist and physician. Bouvard served as the physician of France's King Louis XIII and as the superintendent of the Jardin des Plantes in Paris.[1] Bouvard was known for using his knowledge of plants to create a number of medicines from common ordinary flowers.[2] The flower Bouvard is most closely associated with is the bouvardia genus of evergreen herbs and shrubs. Bouvard also wrote the Historicae Hodiernae Medicinae Rationalis Veritatis, a book defending medical rationalism, in 1655.[3]

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  1. ^ Michael S. Reid (December 2006). Produce Facts: Bouvardia. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.
  2. ^ Bouvardia. Wedding Solutions. Retrieved on 2007-02-18.
  3. ^ (1993) in W.F. Bynum: Medicine and the Five Senses, Roy Port, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 331. ISBN 0521361141.  pg. 290
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