Jean-Jacques Paulet

Paulet was born in Anduze, France and studied medicine in Montpellier, where he received his PhD in March 1764.

He published in Paris in 1765 a book titled d’Histoire de la petite vérole, avec les moyens d’en préserver les enfants... (History of smallpox, with the means to protect children ...), which was followed by a French translation of the book on smallpox by Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (ninth or tenth century).

He completed this series of works by three more books, published in Paris between 1768 and 1776, in which he outlined wide-scale measures of smallpox protection.

His expertise in mycology was summarized in Traité complet sur les champignons (1775) which was considered a seminal work on fungi.

Paulet was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in the section of medicine and surgery on 22 October 1821.