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Baillou, Guillaume de (1538–1616)| French physician who is regarded as the founder of modern epidemiology. His outstanding work on the subject is the Epidemiorum et ephemeridum libri duo, 1640. He is also remembered for distinguishing between smallpox and measles, originating the term ‘rheumatism’, and describing whooping cough and several women's diseases. |
| Baillou's studies drew on the theories of Hippocrates (in particular his doctrine of ‘epidemic constitutions’), and influenced the later work of Thomas Sydenham. |
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