Alexander, Nicholas

Alexander, Nicholas a Benedictine monk of the Congregation of St. Maur, was born at Paris in 1654, and died at St. Denis in 1728. He wrote, La Medicine et la Chirurgie des Pauvres (Paris, 1738, 12mo): — Dictionnaire Botanique et Pharmacetique (ibid. 1716, 8vo). See. Hist. Lit. de la Congregation de St. Maur; Chalmers, Biog. Dict. s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.