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

French Navy The French Navy (, , ), informally (, ), is the Navy, maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of History of France, France. It is among the largest and most powerful List of navies, naval forces i ...

. He was a native of Brest.

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 tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

'', a consulting physician to

Louis-Philippe Louis Philippe I (6 October 1773 – 26 August 1850), nicknamed the Citizen King, was King of the French from 1830 to 1848, the penultimate monarch of France, and the last French monarch to bear the title "King". He abdicated from his throne ...

and a member of the

Moscow Society of Naturalists Moscow Society of Naturalists () is one of Russia's oldest learned societies. In 1805 it was founded as the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow () under the auspices of two noblemen, Mikhail Muravyov and Alexis Razumovsky, by Johann Fi ...

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

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Orléans Orléans (,"Orleans"
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and

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. On July 10, 1816 he was knighted in the ''

Ordre de Saint-Michel The Order of Saint Michael () is a French dynastic order of chivalry, founded by King Louis XI of France on 1 August 1469, in response to the Order of the Golden Fleece founded by Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, Louis' chief competitor for t ...

''.

Honours

* Keraudren Island is located west of Australia at . * Cape Keraudren 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, and formerly called 90-mile Beach, lies along the north-west coast of Western Australia about half-way between the towns of Broome and Port Hedland. Despite its name, it is so ...

. 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, a ...

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

Tasmania Tasmania (; palawa kani: ''Lutruwita'') is an island States and territories of Australia, state of Australia. It is located to the south of the Mainland Australia, Australian mainland, and is separated from it by the Bass Strait. The sta ...

at . * The trumpet manucode, a species of birds found in

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...

, 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 (1822–182 ...

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

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

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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