In the history of medicine, Jean Baptiste Boisduval is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jean Baptiste Boisduval as French physician, entomologist (lepidopterist) and botanist (1799–1879).
Jean Baptiste Boisduval was born at Ticheville in 1799. His recorded nationality is France.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at Société entomologique de France.
The recorded fields of work are entomology and botany.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Jean Baptiste Boisduval died in 1879, aged 80. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Société entomologique de France
- Fields: entomology and botany
