BOUILLET (Jean). Les Elements de la médecine-pratique, tirés des écrits d'Hippocrate et de quelques autres médecins anciens et modernes, où l'on traite des Maladies les plus ordinaires à chaque âge, dans les différentes saisons de l'année, selon les différentes constitutions de l'Air, sous divers Climats et en particulier sous celui de Bésiers. Bésiers, François Barbut, 1744-46. 2 volumes in one in-4, brown marbled calf, spine decorated, red edges (Binding of the period). XXII pp, 4 ff, 380 pp. - XXVIII pp. 166 pp. 1f. table. First edition. Jean Bouillet (Servian 1690 - Béziers 1777) was an important figure in Béziers, where he practised as a doctor for more than 60 years. A renowned practitioner, he was also, along with Dortous de Mairan, the founder of the Béziers Academy of Medicine, for which he served as secretary. This is the scholar's most important work. Copious collection of memoirs, articles and observations (smallpox, rabies, colds, asthma, gout, plague) and more particularly diseases observed in the Béziers region, preceded by extracts from Hippocrates, Helvetius, F. Hoffman.