Jacques Daléchamps (1513,

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and physician. When the scholar Isaac Casaubon first established the Greek text of the recently rediscovered ''

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'', it was printed alongside a Latin translation by Daléchamps. He was the pupil of Guillaume Rondelet and became physician of the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon. In 1552, he published Raymond Chalin de Vinario's “treatise on the plague”.

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* ''Histoire generale des plantes'' Bd.1-2 . Lyon 161
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