Antoine de Saint-Yon

Antoine de Saint-Yon was a French physician and chemist of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Biography
Antoine de Saint-Yon passed his medical thesis in 1671 with the title: An instante febrium excandescentia, accessione, purgandum?

In 1677, he practised as a docteur regent at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris and was dean from 1704 to 1706. He was médecin par quartier of the King Louis XVI.

He was a substitute professor for Guy-Crescent Fagon at the chair of chemistry in the Jardin du Roi in 1695, 1707 and 1715. Among his students were Sébastien Vaillant and Gilles-François Boulduc.

Antoine de Saint-Yon died without having left any writing on medicine or chemistry.