 From 1813 Biett was a doctor of medicine, later becoming chief medical officer at Hôpital Saint-Louis.Biett was not known for his published works, however two of his students, Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave and Henri Édouard Schedel, took assiduous notes of his lectures.In 1828 Cazenave and Schedel published "Abregé pratique des maladies de la peau", a work that was a compilation of Biett's teachings and was to become a major work in dermatology.