Charles Joseph Tanret

Charles Joseph Tanret (born 9 August 1847, in Joinville, France - died 10 July 1917, in Paris) was a French pharmacist and chemist.

He notably studied the chemistry of sugars. For instance, he identified quebrachitol in 1887 from the bark of Aspidosperma quebracho.^[1]

His son Georges was also a pharmacist, specialist of plant chemistry. Georges Tanret identified an alkaloid (galegine) from Galega officinalis that was evaluated in clinical trials in patients with diabetes in the 1920s and 1930s.^[2][3]

References

1. ^ An investigation of quebrachitol as a sweetening agent for diabetics. Robert Alexander McCance and Robert Daniel Lawrence, Biochem J. 1933; 27(4): 986–989
2. ^ Simonnet H, Tanret G. Sur les propietes hypoglycemiantes du sulfate de galegine. Bull Soc Chim Biol Paris 1927
3. ^ Bailey CJ, Campbell IW, Chan JCN, Davidson JA, Howlett HCS, Ritz P (eds). 2007. Metformin: the Gold Standard. A Scientific handbook; Chichester: Wiley. Chapter 1: Galegine and antidiabetic plants

External links

• Charles Joseph Tanret on Société d'Histoire de la Pharmacie website (French)

Persondata
Name	Tanret, Charles Joseph
Alternative names
Short description	Chemist
Date of birth	9 August 1847
Place of birth	Joinville, Haute-Marne, France
Date of death	10 July 1917
Place of death	Paris, France