| Joseph Lieutaud | |
| Birth Date: | 21 June 1703 |
| Birth Place: | Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France |
| Death Place: | Versailles, Île-de-France, France |
| Education: | University of Aix-en-Provence |
| Occupation: | Physician |
| Parents: | Jean-Baptiste Lieutaud Louise (de) Garibel |
| Relatives: | Pierre Joseph Garidel (maternal uncle) |
Joseph Lieutaud (21 June 1703 – 6 December 1780) was a French physician.
Joseph Lieutaud was born on 21 June 1703 at 31 Rue Cardinale in Aix-en-Provence.[1] [2] His father was Jean-Baptiste Lieutaud, a lawyer, and his mother, Louise (de) Garibel.[1] [2] He 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.[1] He graduated from the University of Aix-en-Provence in 1725.[1]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1739.[3]
By 1750, he became a doctor in the royal infirmary, then a pediatrician to the Louis XV court, and eventually the personal physician of King Louis XVI.[1] [2]
He published an essay on human anatomy.[1] His Précis de médecine pratique, published in four instalments (between 1760 and 1776), shows how forward-thinking medical sciences were at that time.[1]
He died on 6 December 1780 in Versailles.[1]