Jacques-François de Villiers


Jacques-François de Villiers was a French physician and translator.
Villiers practised as a doctor in the camps of the royal army during the Seven Years' War. He was later appointed docteur-régent of the faculty of medicine at the University of Paris and also worked at the Royal Veterinary School.
He wrote ten articles for Diderot and D'Alembert's famous Encyclopédie, including the longest article of the work, "Forneau ". He also contributed to the Journal de médecine and was the translator of numerous medical works from Latin and from English.

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