Joseph Raulin

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Joseph Raulin (1708–1784) was a French physician.

Biography

Raulin was born in Ayguetinte in 1708 and died in Paris the 12th of April 1784. He was a French obstetrician, and physician for the king Louis XV. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine in Bordeaux, before becoming physician for the king and royal censor. Due to his position as head physician, he inherited the role of intendant over mineral waters.

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He was member of the Royal Society in London from 1763 and professor of medicine at the Collège Royal from 1776. He is the author of several books on gynaecology and obstetrics, of which some were translated into several languages.

He was also the author of legislation and works on the mineral waters of France, the most famous of which being his medical and chemical description of the mineral waters sold in Paris. [1]

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References

  1. Joseph Raulin, Exposition succincte des principes et des propriétés des eaux minérales, qu'on distribue au bureau général de Paris, Claude Herissant, 1775