Germain Sée

He studied medicine in Paris, obtaining his doctorate in 1846 with a dissertation on ergotism ("Recherches sur les propriétés du seigle ergoté et de ses principes constituants").

[3] He conducted extensive studies of various drugs, being an advocate of antipyrine as a general analgesic,[4] and sodium salicylate for treatment of acute rheumatism.

[5][2] Sée also contributed to the diffusion of uses of hemp extract and tincture in soothing mild gastrointestinal disorders:Professor Germain Sée reported an elaborate work as to the value and uses of cannabis indica in the treatment of [gastric intestinal] neuroses and gastric dyspepsia.

[6]Among his writings were the multi-volume "Médecine clinique", a work that he co-authored with Frédéric Labadie-Lagrave,[7] and "Leçons de pathologie expérimentale", a book on experimental pathology that was edited by Maurice Raynaud.

[1] His "Des maladies spécifiques, non tuberculeuses, du poumon" was later translated into English and published with the title "Diseases of the lungs (of a specific not tuberculous nature)" (1885).