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Gabriel François Venel (23 August 1723, Tourbes – 29 October 1775, Pézenas) was a French chemist, physician and a contributor to the Encyclopédie, (673 items; articles on chemistry, pharmacy, physiology and medicine).

In 1742 he obtained his doctorate in medicine from the University of Montpellier, where in 1759 he attained the chair of materia medica.

As inspecteur général des eaux minérales, with Pierre Bayen (1725–1798), he provided analysis of French mineral waters. In 1768 he became a member of the Société royale des sciences de Montpellier.

Selected works

  • Mémoire sur l'analyse des eaux de selters ou de seltz, 1755.
  • Essai sur l'analyse des végétaux, 1755.
  • Analyses chimiques des nouvelles eaux nimérales, vitrioliques, ferrugineuses, decouvertes à Passy dans la maison de Madame de Calsabigi, 1757.
  • "Quaestiones chemicae duodecim ab illustrissimis viris ... propositae ... : pro Regiâ Cathedrâ vacante in Universitate Medicinae Monspeliensi", 1759.
  • Instructions sur l'usage de la houille, 1775.
  • Précis de matiere médicale, 1787.
  • Books about Gabriel François Venel:
  • Gabriel-François Venel (1723-1775): sa place dans la chimie française du XVIIIe siècle, by Christine Lecornu Lehman, Université de Paris X: Nanterre, 2000 (1404 pages).

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