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DUTROCHET, RENE See also:JOACHIM See also:HENRI (1776-1847) , See also:French physiologist, was See also:born at See also:Chateau de Neon (See also:Indre) on the 14th of See also:November 1776, and died at See also:Paris on the 4th of See also:February 1847. In 1799 he entered the military marine at See also:Rochefort, but soon See also:left it to join the Vendean See also:army. In 1802 he began the study of See also:medicine at Paris; and he was subsequently appointed See also:chief physician to the See also:hospital at See also:Burgos. After an attack of typhus he returned in 1809 to See also:France, where he devoted himself to the study of the natural sciences. His scientific publications were numerous, and covered a wide See also:field, but his most noteworthy See also:work was embryological. His " Recherches sur l'accroissement et la See also:reproduction See also:des vegetaux," published in the Memoires du museum d' histoire naturelle for 1821, procured him in that See also:year the French See also:Academy's See also:prize for experimental See also:physiology. In 1837 appeared his Memoires pour servir a l'histoire anatomique et physiologique des vegetaux et des animaux, a collection of all his more important biological papers.

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