Person    | Male  Born 28/9/1573  Died 22/3/1655

Theodore Mayerne

Categories: Medicine

Countries: France, Switzerland

Physician, born Théodore Turquet de Mayerne in Geneva, Switzerland. He studied in Geneva and Heidelberg and moved to Paris where he founded a medical practice and began to support the views of Paracelsus. Personal physician to King Henri IV, and eventually James I of England.
Knighted 1624. He died in Chelsea, London and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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