Henri Fouquet
Henri Fouquet (born July 31, 1727 in Montpellier , † October 10, 1806 ) was a French doctor, university professor, officer and encyclopaedist .
Live and act
After studying medicine, he went to the military. As a medical officer , he was responsible for the Army of the Pyrenees (inspecteur de l'armée des Pyrénées-Orientales). From 1794 to 1803 he held the first chair for internal medicine in Montpellier (→ School of Montpellier , École de médecine de Montpellier ).
He worked as an encyclopaedist on the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .
In 1800 he went to Andalusia , where he studied cardiac activity. He analyzed the heart rhythm and made graphs of its results. From 1804 he was a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .
Works (selection)
- Discours sur la Clinique chez G. Izar et A. Ricard, Imprimeurs de l'École de Médecine, Montpellier
- Essai sur le Pouls: par rapport aux affections des principaux organes. chez la Veuve de Jean Martel, (1767)
literature
Web links
- Autorités Sudoc, bio and bibliographical information
- Silvia Waissel; Maria Thereza Cera Galvão do Amara; Ana M. Alfonso-Goldfarb: Roots of French vitalism: Bordeu and Barthez, between Paris and Montpellier. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos vol. 18 no.3 Rio de Janeiro July / Sept. 2011
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ List of membres, correspondants et associés étrangers de l'Académie des sciences depuis sa création en 1666. ( Memento of the original of November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 69 kB)
- ^ BIU santé: Paris
- ^ Fleming, PR: A Short History of Cardiology. Rodopi BVEditions (1996) ISBN 9-0420-0048-1 p. 21
- ↑ Dulieu, Louis: Les articles d'Henri Fouquet dans l'Encyclopédie. Revue d'histoire des sciences et de leurs applications. Année (1952) Volume 5 Numéro 5-1 pp. 18-25
- ^ List of members since 1666: Letter F. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 15, 2019 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fouquet, Henri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor, encyclopaedist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1727 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montpellier |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1806 |