Antonio Mizauld

A doctor and professor of medicine in Paris, and a close friend of Oronce Fine, he acted as astrologer and physician to Marguerite de Valois.

Mizauld is best known for his treatises on medicine and astrology, Secrets of the Moon (1571), and Harmonia Coelestium Corporum & Humanorum (1555).

He devoted himself entirely to the publication of unusual treatises, including several on gardening, medicinal plants and popular pharmacy.

He tried to make medicine accessible to all, and to free poor patients from the notorious rapacity of apothecaries.

According to Gérard Oberlé, "Mizault's works deserve to be researched today, when health manuals are resurfacing, concocted by distant epigones of the Bourbonnais scientist, unemployed singers, leek magicians and other natural healers".