Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet


Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet 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 and his wife Catherine Marsals. Jean-Henri-Nicolas had a younger brother, Michel Jean Louis Bouillet and two older sisters, Catherine Jacquette and Gabrielle Bouillet. He was a member of the.

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° ;
  • , 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, 1751, vol.6, ;
Maxime Laignel-Lavastine called him an "epidemiologist and pioneer of social medicine".