Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila (24 April 1787 – 12 March 1853) was a Spanish toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology. From the book La ciencia y sus hombres : vidas de los sabios ilustres desde la antigüedad hasta el siglo XIX T. 3 [Science and its men: lives of the illustrious sages from antiquity to the 19th century Vol 3] By by Figuier, Louis, (1819-1894); Casabó y Pagés, Pelegrín, n. 1831 Published in Barcelona by D. Jaime Seix, editor , 1879 (Imprenta de Baseda y Giró)

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