Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet

Jean-Henri-Nicolas Bouillet (December 1729, Béziers – 22 January 1790, Béziers) was an 18th-century French physician, Encyclopédiste and mayor of Béziers from 1787 to 1790.

Bouillet was the first son of a doctor from Béziers, Jean Bouillet (1690–1777) and his wife Catherine Marsals (born 1700). Jean-Henri-Nicolas had a younger brother, Michel Jean Louis Bouillet (born 1732) and two older sisters, Catherine Jacquette (born 1723) and Gabrielle Bouillet (circa 1727-1789). He was a member of the.

Works (selection)

 * Mémoire sur les pleuro-péripneumonies épidémiques de Béziers, lu à la séance publique de l’Académie des sciences et belles-lettres de Bésiers le 26 octobre 1758, Béziers, 1759, in-4° ;
 * (in collaboration with his father), Béziers, François Barbut, 1765, 154 p.
 * Mémoire sur l’hydropisie de poitrine et sur les hydropisies du péricarde, du médiastin et de la plèvre, Béziers, 1788, in-4°.
 * Solution d’un problème, Toulouse, in-4°.

He contributed the article Faculté to the 6th volume of the Encyclopédie by Diderot, 1751, vol.6, (p. 361–371) ;

Maxime Laignel-Lavastine called him an "epidemiologist and pioneer of social medicine".