[Pierre-Jean Robiquet]

Rev Hist Pharm (Paris). 1999;47(321):97-110.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Famous french pharmacist, born in Rennes, professor at the Paris Ecole de pharmacie and fellow of the Academie royale des sciences, Pierre-Jean Robiquet discovered many natural products, among them two alkaloids narcotine (noscapine) and codeine.

Publication types

  • Biography
  • Historical Article
  • Portrait

MeSH terms

  • Alkaloids / history*
  • Codeine / history*
  • France
  • History, 18th Century
  • History, 19th Century
  • Humans
  • Noscapine / history*
  • Pharmacists / history*

Substances

  • Alkaloids
  • Noscapine
  • Codeine

Personal name as subject

  • P J Robiquet