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Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy Draft
Adding to my original assignment:

Fourcroy's views and studies grew from his teacher Bucquet. Fourcroy was a criticizer of earlier use of chemistry in medicine and saw great importance in studying the chemical materials of plants and animals, particularly for medical use. The majority of this work was done alongside Nicolas Louis Vauquelin, who became Fourcroy's assistant in 1784. During this period of work with Vauquelin, Fourcroy founded his own journal: La Médecine éclairée par les sciences physiques, ou Journal des découvertes relatives aux differentes parties de l'art de guérir, which detailed his investigations of chemistry and body materials. Fourcroy was convinced that "the successes of chemistry would one day change the face of medicine and result in beneficial revolution".Minniebenne (talk) 21:37, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Beginning paragraph about medical clinics:

In regards to the 18th century clinics of Fourcroy’s time he observed several problems. Fourcroy noticed that physicians got accustomed to seeing the diseases of an individual patient but failed in considering a large number of cases comparatively. There was also practical problems with this idea, as physician’s individual practices were insufficient in accommodating for large numbers of people with large varieties of issues. To deal with this Fourcroy proposed a program in 1791 to establish more effective clinical laboratories. Minniebenne (talk) 21:38, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

Along with proposing these hospitals, and the idea that they should be staffed by young physicians well versed in modern sciences, Fourcroy wanted to include material obtained in post-mortem examinations in analysis of humans and how they are affected by disease. This idea was important in linking clinical observations to post-mortem findings, allowing development of new medicine. Although many reform proposals of the time were ignored, Fourcroy had a degree of success because of his political positions. Ultimately Fourcroy was able to set up a teaching laboratory at the Ecole de Sante in Paris, beginning the development of modern clinical laboratories.

Review by K8shep (talk) 18:44, 19 March 2020 (UTC)
1. What does the article do well? Is there anything from your review that impressed you? Any turn of phrase that described the subject in a clear way?

Good work here, with your additions to what's already there and your new paragraph. You can and should add some detail to some of your statements. Who was Vauquelin, if you know more? Or link him to this page? 2. What changes would you suggest the author apply to the article? Why would those changes be an improvement?

Flesh out your statements and give a bit more detail, that's about all I can recommend. You've done a good job! 3. What's the most important thing the author could do to improve the article?

See above! Keep citing and if you can find one more source, you might use it.

First Edit
Fourcroy's views and studies grew from his teacher Bacquet. Fourcroy was a criticizer of earlier use of chemistry in medicine and saw great importance in studying the chemical materials of plants and animals, particularly for medical use.

The origins of neurochemistry: The chemical study of the brain in France at the end of the 18th century (1992)
Authors & Contributors: Sourkes, Theodore L. (Author);

Description: Specifically on Antoine-François de Fourcroy's interest in the nature of the brain substances.

Publication Date: 1992 Insert paragraph Citation URI

http://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000060625/

Chemistry and the Definition and Isolation of ‘Active Principles’ of Plants in the Late 18th and Early-19th Centuries (2015)
Authors & Contributors: Márcia H. M. Ferraz (Author); Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb (Author);

Abstract: Discussions of possible procedures to analyze materials originated in the various kingdoms of nature became increasingly more frequent in the second half of the 18 th century. While in the wake of the work performed by Antoine Lavoisier and his group, the analysis of a considerable part of mineral compounds no longer posed a problem, the same was not the case of the substances of plant or animal origin. In this paper we discuss Pierre-J. Macquer’s and Antoine –F. Fourcroy’s ideas on the analysis of materials originated in the plant and animal kingdoms and how the results of such analyses were gradually included in pharmacopoeias in the early decades of the 19 th century.

Publication Date: 2015 Insert paragraph Insert paragraph Citation URI

http://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB958147529/

The programme devised in 1791 by Fourcroy for the establishment of clinical laboratories (1992)
Authors & Contributors: Büttner, J. (Author);

Description: Discusses Fourcroy's programme for a clinical laboratory published in his “Idées sur un nouveau moyen de recherche la nature des maladies” (1791).

Publication Date: 1992 Insert paragraph Citation URI

http://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000039566/

The chemical revolution: A word from Monsieur Fourcroy (1976)
Authors & Contributors: Guerlac, Henry (Author);

Description: Although the phrase “the chemical revolution” used to refer to “the new chemistry established primarily through the labors of Lavoisier” did not receive wide currency until the publication of Marcellin Berthelot's La révolution chimique--Lavoisier (1890), the author traces the origins of this phrase and finds that is was first used by Antoine François de Fourcroy in his Lecons élémentaires d'histoire naturelle (1782). (G. B. KAUFFMAN)

Publication Date: 1976 Citation URI

http://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000011054/

Evaluating an Article (Francisco Sizzi)

 * Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?

Technically the entire article is relevant to Francisco Sizzi. What may stick out as you read through the article is the entire measly paragraph only covers a single topic.


 * Is the article neutral? Are there any claims, or frames, that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?

Once again, the entire article is only about a single thing, and that happens to be an argument of Francisco Sizzi himself. It appears (from this wikipedia article) that the only thing that happened in Sizzi's life was that he had a different viewpoint than Galileo. Although this topic itself in definition is heavily biased, the article does an ok job of making it obvious that these views are in fact Sizzi's himself. Besides maybe the final sentence: "So they do not exist."


 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?

Yeah you could probably say that since the entire article, once again, is about Sizzi's viewpoint. Really it doesn't say a single thing about Galileo's "viewpoint". Only that he discovered the satellites of Jupiter after which the article jumps into 4 entire lines of text that is solely the name of a book Sizzi published.


 * Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?

The ability of the blue links to actually turn purple is about the only good thing we can say about this. There is a small sprinkling of citations such as "Galileo", and "astronomer" and there are two at the bottom of the page: a "Note", and an "External link". The note takes you to answers.com, which my gut tells me is not the best place to get reliable information about 17th century astronomers. The external link takes you to an internet discussion forum from 2005. The punchline? The user even says "Anonymous".


 * Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?

I may have jumped the gun on this question in the previous question. But I would like to add the only "source" that seems appropriate and reliable is Sizzi's book itself. This is a bit confusing however, because the book is not even listed as a source at the bottom of the page. It just has its offensively long title jammed twice into the middle of the article (both in Latin and its rough translation".


 * Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?

Speaking of out of date, there is no life and death date. Not sure how difficult it would be to find, but it would be nice to know. As far as what else is missing, I would say just about everything. Oh but he did disagree that Galileo had discovered moons and wrote a book about it. Woah I just paraphrased the whole article in one sentence.


 * Check out the Talk page of the article. What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?

The only thing is something from a bot. It's about sources and I don't really understand it.


 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?

Stub-class. Part of WikiProject Biography.


 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?

We specifically talked about Galileo in class. When I was scrolling through various articles and topics from our class on Wikipedia Francisco Sizzi is the first link off of Galileo that I clicked. Unfortunately the article is kind of a short dead end. I think more could be fleshed out, and the fleshing out would lead to things that directly relate with our class.