Henri Fouquet
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Henri Fouquet | |
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| Born | 31 July 1727 |
| Died | 10 October 1806 (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.
- 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.
