Why is mathieu orfila the father of toxicology
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Mathieu orfila toxicology.
Orfila, Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure
4/24/1787–3/12/1853
SPANISH, NATURALIZED FRENCH
CHEMIST, PHYSIOLOGIST
Mathieu Orfila helped initiate the study of toxicology .
His massive treatise on poisons appeared in three languages in the second decade of the nineteenth century and immediately propelled the medical, biological, chemical, physiological, and legal sciences in new directions.
Born as Mateu José Bonaventura Orfila i Rotger Maó, Minorca, Spain, he eschewed his family's traditional career of merchant seafaring when he was fifteen in order to study medicine .
From 1804 to 1807, he attended courses in medicine at the University of Valencia and chemistry at the University of Barcelona. He won a scholarship to the University of Madrid to study chemistry and mineralogy, but went instead to Paris in June 1807 to study medicine and pharmacy.
There Orfila became the protégé of pharmacist and chemist Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin and chemist Louis-Jacques Th
