[3] He was an Officer of the Légion d'honneur (1847)[4] and a Chevalier of the Order du Christ de Portugal (1828).
[5] During his ten years at Charité he treated and cured numerous patients with lead poisoning.
[7] His botanical and medical interest met in his report on the use of pomegranate root to fight tapeworm infections.
Toward the end of his life Dr. Merat published a bibliography of his 213 printed works.
Study has been my constant need, I owe it the quiet days of my simple and busy life; it made me forget, on a few occasions, the pains attached to our human nature, and from which my obscurity has not always been able to remove me."