Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet (December 1729, Béziers â 22 January 1790, Béziers) was an 18th-century French physician, Encyclopédiste and mayor of Béziers from 1787 to 1790.
Bouillet was the first son of a doctor from Béziers, Jean Bouillet (1690âÂÂ1777) and his wife Catherine Marsals (born 1700). Jean-Henri-Nicolas had a younger brother, Michel Jean Louis Bouillet (born 1732) and two older sisters, Catherine Jacquette (born 1723) and Gabrielle Bouillet (circa 1727-1789). He was a member of the .
Works (selection)
- Mémoire sur les pleuro-péripneumonies épidémiques de Béziers, lu àla séance publique de lâÂÂAcadémie des sciences et belles-lettres de Bésiers le 26 octobre 1758, Béziers, 1759, in-4ð ;
- (in collaboration with his father) , Béziers, François Barbut, 1765, 154 p.
- Mémoire sur lâÂÂhydropisie de poitrine et sur les hydropisies du péricarde, du médiastin et de la plèvre, Béziers, 1788, in-4ð.
- Solution dâÂÂun problème, Toulouse, in-4ð.
He contributed the article Faculté to the 6th volume of the Encyclopédie by Diderot, 1751, vol.6, (p. 361âÂÂ371) ;
Maxime Laignel-Lavastine called him an "epidemiologist and pioneer of social medicine".
Bibliography
- Louis-Gabriel Michaud: Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne: histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes avec la collaboration de plus de 300 savants et littérateurs français ou étrangers. 2. Ausgabe, (1843âÂÂ1865)
- Jacques Proust: L'encyclopédisme dans le Bas-Languedoc au XVIII<sup>e</sup> siècle. Montpellier 1968
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