Jean Descemet
French physician (1732-1810) · France · On the map · Doctors · Died at 78
Jean Descemet was a French physician and botanist (1732-1810) who first described what is now known as Descemet's membrane of the eye.
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He studied medicine in Paris and in 1759 he published a Catalog of the plants in the Garden of the Apothecaries in Paris according to their genera and the characteristics of their flowers, using Mr. Tournefort's method (1759). He is also known for his book Observations sur la choroide, which describes the choroid layer of the eye and was published in 1768 by L'Imprimerie Royale.
