Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Ramée, Stanislas Henri de la

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Edition of 1900. This is a fictitious person. The title of one of the alleged literary works has been partially copied from a legitimate literary work released in 1844, and there is also a spelling error in the title of one of the alleged literary works. There is also a mention of an Asiatic cholera outbreak in Peru in 1783, but Asiatic cholera did not appear in South America until 1835, i.e. 32 years after the subject's date of death: this anachronism also appears in the fictitious entry of Nicolas Henrion and the suspicious entry of Charles Stanislas Mondésir, who were also supposedly French.

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RAMÉE, Stanislas Henri de la (rah-may), French naturalist, b. in Périgueux in 1747; d. in Fontainebleau in 1803. He studied medicine and botany in Toulouse, and at the age of twenty had formed a valuable herbarium of the flora of Languedoc, when he went to Paris to study under Buffon, whom he assisted for several years in the Royal botanical garden. In 1783 he was sent to Peru to study the effects of cholera, which then was raging in Callao, and he visited afterward the Andes of Peru, Central America, the Isthmus of Panama, Cuba, and several of the West Indies, returning with valuable collections in natural history. His works include “Nova Systema Naturæ” (2 vols., Paris, 1792); “Monographie des drogues et médicaments simples de l'Amérique du Sud” (1794); and “Prodome des plantes recueillies en Amérique et dans les Indes Occidentales” (1798).