René Quinton (Wikipedia)

Encyclopedia article on René Quinton (15 December 1866 – 9 July 1925), French biologist. Documents biographical facts: born Chaumes-en-Brie; parents Paul Édouard Quinton (physician and mayor) and Marie Pauline Élisabeth Amyot; educated at Collège Chaptal. Records that L'eau de mer, milieu organique (1904) was his only book published during his lifetime and that Wikipedia characterizes its scientific views as 'not valid.' Notes the patent of 'sérum de Quinton' in 1907, his co-founding of the Ligue Nationale Aérienne in 1908, his WWI service as artillery captain rising to colonel (wounded 8 times; Légion d'honneur at Chevalier, Officier, and Commandeur levels; Croix de Guerre with 5 Palms and 2 Stars; British Distinguished Service Cross; US Distinguished Service Cross), and his death in Paris on 9 July 1925. Notes that his therapies were 'abandoned by medicine' and removed from the Vidal reference. Quotes skeptical physician Harriet Hall: 'Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and this century-old report doesn't even meet the standards of ordinary peer-reviewed published evidence.' Wikipedia is a secondary source; key biographical facts have been cross-checked against primary sources including the book title page.