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Authorised form of nameBuissière; Paul (c 1655 - 1739); surgeon and anatomist
Other forms of surnameBussière
Datesc 1655 - 1739
NationalityFrench
Place of birthFrance, Europe
Date of birthc. 1655
Place of deathHis house in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, Westminster, London, England
Date of death1739
DatesAndPlacesWill and Testament (19 July 1737): Proved on 22 January 1739, bequeathed the sum of £200 to the French hospital in London.
OccupationSurgeon; Anatomist
ActivityCareer:
Practised in the Principality of Orange; a Huguenot, he fled France on account of his religion and settled first in Copenhagen, then London, where he had a successful practice; naturalised British (1688); lectured on anatomy and physiology; Governor of the French Hospital (1729); corresponded with Sir Hans Sloane (FRS 1685)
Memberships:
Corresponding Member of Academie Royale des Sciences
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/11/1699
ProposerSir Hans Sloane
Other Royal Society activityApproved as a fellow of the Royal Society on 22 March 1699, and was transferred from the 'Persons of other nations' category to the main list in 1713.
Maintained a scientific correspondence with Sir Hans Sloane (FRS 1685)
OtherInfoOne of the first to introduce a course of lectures on anatomy and physiology into England.
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SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Hunter
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/6753158369774001460008
CodeNA3356
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
RBO/9/96'Anatomical Description of the heart of Land Tortoises from America' by Mr [Paul] Bussiere [Buissiere]1710
LBO/28/60Copy letter from Paul Buissiere, London15 January 1693/1694
IM/000648Buissiere, Paul2002
P/0018Portrait of Buissiere, Paul
CLP/14i/54Letter, regarding a substance coughed up which resembled the vessels of the lungs by Mr Bussier [Paul Buissiere][1700]
CLP/13/8Paper, 'An anatomicall account of a child's head born without a brain in October last 1698' by Monsieur Bussiere [Paul Buissiere][1699]
EL/B2/39Copy of a letter, from Monsieur [Paul] Buissiere [to the Royal Society], dated at London 15 January 1694
CLP/12i/55Extract, 'Part of a letter from Mr Bussiere [sic] to Dr Sloane wherein he gives an account of the new way of cutting for the stone by the hermit with his opinion of it' by [Paul] Buissiere[1690s]
RBO/7/84Part of a letter from Mr [Paul] Bussiere [Buissiere] to Hans Sloane concerning a new method of removing a bladder stonend
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