Pierre François Keraudren (15 May 1769 - 16 August 1858) was a scientist and physician in the

French Navy The French Navy (french: Marine nationale, lit=National Navy), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the five military service branches of France. It is among the largest and most powerful naval forces in t ...

. He was a native of

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Biography

From 1813 to 1845 he served as Inspector General to the Health Department of the Navy. Keraudren was a member of the ''

Académie de Médecine An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...

'', a consulting physician to

Louis-Philippe Louis Philippe (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850) was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, and the penultimate List of French monarchs#House of Orléans, July Monarchy (1830–1848), monarch of France. As Louis Philippe, Duke of Chartres, h ...

and a member of the

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. He also belonged to medical, literary and scientific societies of

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and

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. On July 10, 1816 he was knighted in the '' Ordre de Saint-Michel''.

Honours

* Keraudren Island is located west of Australia at . *

Cape Keraudren Cape Keraudren is a coastal headland on the northern coast of Western Australia. The rocky cape forms the western end of Eighty Mile Beach, and the eastern end of the Pilbara Coast.Thackway R, Cresswell ID. 1998. Interim Marine and Coastal Regi ...

in the north-west of Australia was charted in 1801 and is located at at the southern end of

Eighty Mile Beach Eighty Mile Beach, also spelled Eighty-mile Beach or 80-mile Beach, lies along the north-west coast of Western Australia about half-way between the towns of Broome, Western Australia, Broome and Port Hedland, Western Australia, Port Hedland. I ...

. Keraudren served as the ship's official physician to the 1800–1803

Baudin expedition to Australia The Baudin expedition of 1800 to 1803 was a French expedition to map the coast of New Holland (now Australia). Nicolas Baudin was selected as leader in October 1800. The expedition started with two ships, '' Géographe'', captained by Baudin, an ...

. * Cape Keraudren at the north of Hunter Island in the north-west of

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at . * The

trumpet manucode The trumpet manucode (''Phonygammus keraudrenii'')'' is a species of bird in the family Paradisaeidae. The trumpet manucode is named after its powerful and loud trumpeting calls. The Specific name (zoology), specific name, ''keraudrenii'', comme ...

, a species of birds found in

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

, was given the scientific name ''Manucodia keraudrenii'' by René-Primevère Lesson and

Prosper Garnot Prosper Garnot (13 January 1794 – 8 October 1838) was a French surgeon and naturalist. Garnot was born at Brest. He was an assistant surgeon under Louis Isidore Duperrey on ''La Coquille'' during its circumnavigation of the globe (1822–1825). ...

in 1826. * He also appears to be the person after whom the

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

s '' Oxygyrus keraudrenii'' ( Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, 1817) and ''Pterotrachea keraudrenii'' (Fortune Eydoux and Louis François Auguste Souleyet, 1832) were named.

Works

* ''Réflexions sommaires sur le scorbut'', 1804 * ''Considérations et observations sur la syphilis dégénérée'', 1811
''De la fièvre jaune observée aux Antilles [et] sur les vaisseaux du roi''
Paris, 1823
''Mémoire sur les causes des maladies des marins, et sur les soins à prendre pour converser leur santé dans les ports et à la mer''
2nd ed., Paris, 1824
1st ed., 1817
* ''Du choléra-morbus de l'Inde ou mordéchi'', Paris, 1824 ** ''Mémoire sur le choléra-morbus de l'Inde'', Baillière, Paris, 1831''France savante dictionnaire prosopographique, List of publications''
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''On the cholera morbus of India''
The Lancet Office, London, 1831—"The most rational, unexaggerated, and impartial monograph concerning the Indian Cholera, yet presented to the public" (from the title page)

References

External links

''Obsèques de M. Kéraudren''
Gros et Donnaud, 1858, Paris, on Gallica
Record
of the Léonore database {{DEFAULTSORT:Keraudren, Pierre Francois French medical writers 1769 births 1859 deaths French Navy officers from Brest, France French male non-fiction writers

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