Antoine Penchenier, or Penchinier, (? , Montélimar – 1761, Donzère), was an 18th-century French physician.
Biography
Born in Montélimar, he studied medicine in Montpellier where he held a practise. Penchenier wrote the article Goutte (gout) for volume VII of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and D'Alembert, in which he denounced in the same time charlatans and their powders of orvietan.
After his death, his widow, Delphine Rapin, married Vincent-Amable de Roqueplane, baron de Lestrade, from Montélimar
References
Bibliography
Frank Arthur Kafker, The encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie, Oxford, Studies on Voltaire and the eighteenth Century, 1988, p. 295-6.
External links
Antoine Penchenier on Wikisource
Natale Gaspare De Santo; Massimo Cirillo; Carmela Bisaccia; Gabriel Richet; Garabed Eknoyan: Nephrological Excerpts From the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert. In: Am J Kidney Dis. 2011;57:788-798 (PDF; 2,09 MB)
18th-century French physicians
Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772) People from Montélimar 1761 deaths