Species Rondeletia odorata

For Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566), French physician, zoologist and ichthyologist, professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier (1545), who became chancellor of the Medical Faculty (1556). He studied Latin and philosophy in Paris (1525), and medicine at the University of Montpellier (1529). He learned Greek in Paris while living with Viscount Turenne as preceptor to his sons. He obtained his MD in 1537 and became physician to Cardinal Tournon, whom he accompanied on his journeys as ambassador to Italy and other countries. Rondelet’s two main interests were medicine, particularly anatomy, and fish. He authored Methodus Materia Medicinali et Compositionism Medicamentorum (1556) and De Piscibus Marinis (1554 and 1558). He dissected his infant son in an attempt to discover his cause of death.