Henri Fouquet (31 July 1727 – 10 October 1806) was an 18th-century French physician.[1]
Henri Fouquet | |
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| Born | 31 July 1727 |
| Died | 10 October 1806 (aged 79) |
| Occupation | Physician |
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 edit
- Wetsh, with inset comments by Henri Fouquet, Medicina ex pulsu, sive systema doctrinae sphygmicae, Vindobonae, 1770.
- Discours sur la Clinique, Montpellier, at G. Izar and A. Ricard, Imprimeurs de l’École de Médecine, An X.
References edit
- ^ 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)
- ^ Dumas, Charles-Louis (1809). Éloge de M. Fouquet. Société des sciences, lettres et arts de Montpellier. p. 405. Retrieved 10 August 2016..
- ^ Base Léonore
Sources edit
- Charles-Louis Dumas, Éloge de M. Fouquet. In : Bulletin de la Société libre des sciences et belles-lettres de Montpellier, Montpellier, Tournel, 1809 (supplément au n° XXXVII)
