Jean Bouillet

Jean Bouillet , French doctor, born in 1690 with Servian close to Béziers, died in 1777.

Biography

Being studied of the laws, for which his/her parents intended, he preferred that of the medicine, which he began with Montpellier in 1707. He was accepted doctor in 1711. Few doctors enjoyed such a long career. He delivered himself to the study of his art, in Servian, without allowing itself to see patients; then, in 1715, came to be established in Béziers, where it was distinguished, during more than sixty years, by eminent services. Good expert, at the same time as it served his fellow-citizens under this report/ratio, it contributed with Jean-Jacques Dortous de Mairan to re-establishment of an academy of medicine in this city, of which he was the secretary. He begin there with two memories crowned by the Académie from Bordeaux: one, in 1719, on the Cause of the multiplication of the leavens , in-8°; the other, in 1720, on the Cam of gravity , Béziers and Bordeaux, in-8°. However he prefers the free opinions of Descartes to the theory Bêcher and of Stahl for the first question, and with that of Newton, for the second. In 1715, it had already sent a Mémoire on digestion to the Académie of Montpellier, which, consequently, declared it its associate. In 1721, the Peste of Marseilles gave place to a new report of Bouillet: Opinion and Remède against the plague , Béziers, in-8°, in which this doctor, trained by the large ascending one of Pierre Chirac, supports against Astruc, and especially against the obviousness, which the disease is not contagious. But these are not the first writings which put the seal at the reputation of Bouillet: they are its collections of practical observations, and the continuation of the atmospheric and medical constitutions of the town of Béziers during a long succession of years.

One has of him:

a Letter with Penna, doctor of the prince of, about rhubarb , Béziers, to indicate analogues of this purgative substance to him which was expensive then;
On the Manner of treating the Small pox , ibid, 1755, in-4°, instruction against the heating method still employed in this disease, in spite of the councils of Sydenham;
Memory where one gives a general idea of some diseases which reign particularly in, the town of Béziers, and that one calls strong gales , ibid, 1736, in-4°;
Description of a epidemic Catharre, with observations on the verminous fevers, the use of the Quinquina in the remittent fevers, etc , ibid, 1756, in-8°;
Elements of practical medicine, drawn from the writings of Hippocrates and some other old and modern doctors , ibid, 1744 - 1746, 2 vol. in-4°; rather happy compilation of Hippocrates, Baillou, Lomnius, Stahl, to which some essays

are united clean with Bouillet, and this continuation of the medical constitutions of the town of Béziers, since 1730 with 1744, about which we spoke presently. It is in these last writings especially that the good expert is recognized. In the foreword of this work, Bouillet protests with force against the detractors of medicine. The academy of Béziers had the publication of its first reports, in 1756, in Bouillet, which was and was more than fifty years its secretary; it published even a Recueil of letters, memories and other parts to be used with the history of the academy as Béziers , Béziers, 1736, in-4°, and bequeathed to him to its death two hundreds of most invaluable volumes of its library.

Bouillet is still author of the following works:

Plane of a general history of the diseases , Béziers, 1757, in-4°, announces of a work in 7 volumes which it did not compose;
Memory on the petroleum oil in general, and particularly on that of Gabian , ibid, in-4°;
Observations on the Anasarque, the hydropisies of chest and the Pericardium , etc, ibid, in common with his/her son;
Memory on the means of preserving small pox the city and the diocese of Béziers , ibid, 1770, in-4°. It provided several articles to the Encyclopedia, inserted in the 6th volumes, several memories with the Academy of Science of Paris, from which it corresponding, was inserted among those of the foreign scientists (Between caves of the extracts of its letters with Mairan (1768)), etc He was also mathematics professor, and gave observations on the immersion of Saturn in 1722. He died in Béziers, at the 88 years age, the August 13rd 1777, following a cold of which he was surprised one morning, by making an astronomical observation of which it still ordered with the bed of dead the continuation to his children.

One of them, Jean-Henri-Nicolas, born at Béziers, in December 1729, doctor of the faculty of Montpellier, is author of several works relative to its art:

Memory on the hydropisy of chest and the hydropisies of the pericardium, the médiastin and of, cries , Béziers, 1788, in-4°;
Memory on the epidemic pleuro-péripneumonies of Béziers , ibid, in-4°;
Solution of a problem , Toulouse, in-4°. As we said, it had share with the work of his father on the anasarque one, etc One owes him also several essays and of, astronomical observations inserted in the collection of the foreign scientists of the Academy of Science (T. 5, year 1760).

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