32 SOME AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANISTS 



Sarrazin is meant. But Jean Antoine was born 

 in Lyons, France, April 25, 1547, and died there 

 November 29, 1598. As he went out of the world 

 ten years before Tournef ort came into it, he mani- 

 festly did not send the flower to Tournefort. 



Michel S. Sarrazin, undoubtedly the real 

 sponsor, was both physician and naturalist. Born 

 in 1659, he went to Canada in 1685, an d becoming 

 noted both as doctor and scientist, he had the 

 honor of being elected member of the French 

 Academy. Moreover, several years after his 

 arrival in Canada he was appointed King's Physi- 

 cian for the country, the only bearer of that title 

 in all New France. His salary was a bare 600 

 livres, without recompense from his patients. 



It is a thousand pities that we have so few data 

 touching this interesting life. About 1712 he 

 married Marie Anne, the daughter of Francois 

 Hazeur, fils, and had seven children. He died in 

 Quebec, September, 1734, and his widow re- 

 ceived a pension from the King; his sons, who 

 were regarded as proteges of the State, were then 

 studying medicine in Paris. 



