Henri Fouquet

Henri Fouquet
Born 31 July 1727
Montpellier
Died 10 October 1806(1806-10-10) (aged 79)
Occupation Physician

Henri Fouquet (31 July 1727 – 10 October 1806) was an 18th-century French physician.[1]

He was a student of Gabriel François Venel at the faculté de médecine de Montpellier.[2]

A military physician, inspector of the army of the Pyrénées-Orientales, he held the first Chair of internal clinic of Montpellier from 1794 to 1803.

He collaborated with the Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, was a member of the Institut de France and chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (decree dated 17 July 1804).[3]

In 1800 he went to Andalusia to analyze the variations of the pulse based on various conditions and provided graphical representations of these conditions.

Works

References

  1. Quérard, Joseph Marie, La France littéraire: ou Dictionnaire bibliographique des savants, historiens et géns de lettres de la. Firmin Didot père et fils (1829) (p. 177)
  2. Dumas, Charles-Louis (1809). Éloge de M. Fouquet. Société des sciences, lettres et arts de Montpellier. p. 405. Retrieved 10 August 2016..
  3. Base Léonore

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