Joseph Lieutaud

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Joseph Lieutaud (Aix-en-Provence, 21 June 1703 - Versailles, 6 December 1780), was a French doctor.

[edit] Biography

Joseph Lieutaud started studying botany, following in the wake of his uncle, Pierre Joseph Garidel, and went on to be called upon as a doctor in the Hotel-Dieu in Aix-en-Provence. He would constantly learn more from his patients and from the dissections he would perform on their corpses.

By 1750 he became a doctor in the royal infirmary, then a pediatrician to the Louis XV court, and eventually the very doctor of Louis XVI.

He was also a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and of the Royal Society of London, and President of the University of Paris.

[edit] Works

He published an essay on human anatomy.

His précis de médecine pratique, published in four instalments (between 1760 and 1776), shows how forward-thinking medical sciences were at that time.

[edit] Trivia

• A street in the centre of Aix-en-Provence, is named after Joseph Lieutaud. [1]