Duchesne, Joseph

DuChesne, Joseph. Phantom alchemical plants of Quersitanus. [http //www.levitv.com/alchemv/quercetn.htmll. 

DuChesne, Joseph.The practise of chymicall, and hermeticall physicke, for the presentation of health. Written in Latin by Iosephus Quersitanus, doctor of physicke. And translated into English, by Thomas Timme, minister. Translated by Thomas Timme. London Printed by Thomas Creede, 1605. [204] p. 

Debus, Allen George. "Duchesne, Joseph." In Dictionary of scientific biography, iv, 208-210., 1971. 

Duchesne, Joseph (Quercetanus), The practise ofchymicall, and hermeticallphysicke, for the preservation of health, tr. Thomas Tymme (1605). 

Duchesne, Joseph. Ad veritatem hermeticase medicinae ex Hoppocratis veterumque decretis ac therapeusi (1604) (Frankfurt Wolfgang Richter and Contrad Nebenius, 1605). 

Duchesne, Joseph (Quercetanus). 1605. The Practice of Chymicall, and Hermeticall Physicke, trans. Thomas Timme. London By Thomas Cole. 

On reform with a distance from Paracelsus, see the works of Fioravanti, Drouet, and later Joseph Duchesne STC. Banister, William Clowes, and others distinguished between good and bad Paracelsians Debus, English Paracelsians, 69. 

An enthusiastic advocate of Paracelsan ideas was Joseph Duchesne, better known under his Latin appellation of Quercetanus (1521- 1609). He was born in Gascony, studied in Germany, and in France was attached as physician to the court of Henry IV. He was an extreme partizan of the chemical medicines of Paracelsus and added others of his own initiative. His position at court protected him from the hostility of the medical profession, then generally opposed to the new remedies, though his arrogance and many fantastic notions served to make him many enemies in the profession. 

Joseph Duchesne, Le Grand miroir du monde (Lyon pour Barthelem Honorat, 1587 second edition, Lyon pour les Heritiers d Eustache Vignon, 1593), 529 and 532 quoted in Debus, French Paracelsians, 52. 

France Joseph Duchesne On the Material of the Medicine of Ancient Philosophers... 

Court alchemists included Giordano Bruno (Henry III of France, 1551-1589), John Dee (Elizabeth I, Charles I) and Joseph Duchesne (Henry IV of France, 1553-1610). 

George Ripley Thomas Norton Abbot Trithemius of Sponheim Henry Agrippa Paracelsus Georgius Agricola John Dee Joseph Duchesne... 

Paracelsus initiated a debate on the place of chemistry in medicine. The more traditional members of the medical profession clung to the ideas of Galen, but from the middle of the sixteenth century onwards an increasing number of more progressive physicians produced iatrochemical texts advocating the use of chemically prepared remedies. Typical of these iatrochemical writers was Joseph Duchesne (c. 1544-1609), also known as Quercetanus, a physician who advocated the medical use of substances such as antimony sulphide, urea and calomel, and gave directions for their preparation. 

At the beginning of the seventeenth century Joseph Duchesne and Oswald Croll adopted the view that medical spirits and spirits extracted by chemists had the same source, namely, the spirit of the world. On this basis they stated that the only active remedies were those prepared by using spirits extracted by distillation. ... 

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