Joseph Lieutaud

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

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.

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.

Trivia

 * A street in the centre of Aix-en-Provence, is named after Joseph Lieutaud.

Joseph Lieutaud