[Le Quercinois, Guillaume Jacob, physician and surgeon at the Montpellier School, artisan of the reform of medical sciences in Spain the the 18th century].

Guillaume Jacob born in Castelnau-Montratier at the dawn of the XVIIIth century, physician of the School of Medicine of Montpellier was attracted by Spain during the reign of Philip V grand-son of Louis XIV. Nominated Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Society of Medicine of Sevilla, later Royal Academy, he worked during seventeen years to improve Spanish medical science: he informed himself in Paris of the discoveries of French scientists, obtained modern surgical instruments, books to enrich the library, laid the foundations of a botanical garden for medical plants and established links between the Royal Society of Sevilla and various European Royal Academies in order to allow exchanges.