Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet (December 1729,

Béziers Béziers (; oc, Besièrs) is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Hérault Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region of Southern France. Every August Béziers hos ...

– 22 January 1790,

) was an 18th-century French physician, Encyclopédiste and mayor of

from 1787 to 1790. Bouillet was the first son of a doctor from Béziers,

Jean Bouillet Jean Bouillet (14 May 1690, Servian near Béziers Béziers (; oc, Besièrs) is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Hérault Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, ...

(1690–1777) 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).Genealogie der Familie
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Works (selection)

* ''Mémoire sur les pleuro-péripneumonies épidémiques de Béziers, lu à la séance publique de l’Académie des sciences et belles-lettres de Bésiers le 26 octobre 1758'', Béziers, 1759, in-4° ; * (in collaboration with his father) , Béziers, François Barbut, 1765, 154 p. * ''Mémoire sur l’hydropisie de poitrine et sur les hydropisies du péricarde, du médiastin et de la plèvre'', Béziers, 1788, in-4°. * ''Solution d’un problème'', Toulouse, in-4°. He contributed the article ''Faculté'' to the 6th volume of the '' Encyclopédie'' by

Diderot Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominen ...

, 1751, vol.6, (p. 361–371) ; 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, (1843–1865) * Jacques Proust: ''L'encyclopédisme dans le Bas-Languedoc au XVIII^e siècle.'' Montpellier 1968

References

External links

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Laignel-Lavastine, Maxime: Les médecins collaborateurs de l'Encyclopédie. Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications year 1951, Volume 4, issue 4-3-4 (p. 353–358)
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