Amédée Dechambre

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Amédée Dechambre

Amédée Dechambre (born January 12, 1812 in Sens ; † January 4, 1886 ) was a French doctor who is known for the Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales , known for short as Dechambre , which he published .

biography

Dechambres father died when he during the Napoleonic wars typhus used. Therefore Amédée Dechambre and his brother received a fellowship from the community.

At the end of his education he came to Paris and on September 28, 1830 , he graduated from the Baccalauréat universitaire en sciences . Because of his limited economic opportunities, he began training as an officier de santé. From 1831 he worked at the Hospice de la Vieillesse-Femmes where he stayed until 1832. When cholera broke out in Paris in 1832 , he was assigned to an ambulance in the Maubert district. There he fell ill with typhus himself , whereupon he returned to Sens to recover there.

In 1833 he took part in the entrance exam for the boarding school and was accepted as ninth-best next to Jules-Louis Behier. He worked for four years at the Hospice de la Vieillesse . He completed his training on January 15, 1838 with an examination in physics , chemistry and natural history . His doctoral thesis was not accepted. Dechambre then worked as an author in magazines.

Dechambre had been in contact with Jules Guérin , the editor-in-chief of the Gazette médicale de Paris , since 1833 , and at the end of 1838 he became secretary and director of the clinic he opened in La Muette Castle in Passy and published his observations in the Gazette médicale de Paris and other scientific journals, to publicize the successes of Pravaz and Alphonse Guérin's treatment methods .

In L'Esculape, journal de spécialités médico-chirurgical , founded by Salvatore Furnari , which shortly thereafter merged with Amédée Latour's Gazette des médecins praticiens , Dechambre successfully published a series of feuilletons under the title Les Mouches on April 12, 1840 .

In June 1841, he founded l'Examinateur médical , which had to be discontinued with the issue of July 1, 1843 due to the critical content. Dechambres articles were known to all doctors in Paris, but his work as editor-in-chief of the Examinateur médical was regarded as practicing the medical profession without a doctorate. Therefore, he enrolled at the Medical Faculty of the University of Strasbourg in December 1843 and received his doctorate in February 1844 on the subject of Sur l'hypertrophie concentrique du cœur et les déviations de l'épine par rétraction musculaire .

On his return he took over the medical editing of the Examinateur médical and at the same time continued his work in the orthopedic institute. During this time - from 1844 to 1853 - he wrote most of his contributions to the Gazette Médicale , which describes the history of the health system in Paris reflect. At the same time he wrote articles on neurology , since he was secretary of the Société Médico-Psychologique .

In 1853, at the suggestion of the publisher Victor Masson, he founded the Gazette hebdomadaire de Médecine et de Chirurgie , the first edition of which appeared on October 7, 1853.

Bust of Dechambre

In 1863, the Paris publishers Masson and Asselin began to publish a Dictionnaire encyclopédique des Sciences médicales , which was to appear in six volumes in twenty sections from January 15, 1883, and commissioned Amédée Dechambre and Jacques Raige-Delorme with the work.

Dechambre was honored by the Académie de Médecine on March 30, 1875 with free associate membership, as did Émile Littré , Amédée Latour and Louis Peisse . In December 1885 his friends, the editors of the Gazette hebdomadaire de Médecine et de Chirurgie and staff of the dictionary dedicated a bust made by the sculptor Louis-Ernest Barrias .

On December 20, 1885, Dechambre suffered a stroke, after which he entrusted Léon Lereboullet with the further editing of the dictionary and the la Gazette hebdomadaire. Dechambre died on January 4, 1886, he was buried on the Cimetière de Montmartre .

literature

  • L. Lereboullet: A. Dechambre Sa vie, ses œuvres . Ed .: Masson. Paris 1897.
  • M. Genty: 'Amédée Dechambre Les Biographies Médicales . Ed .: Lib. JB. Baillière et fils. Paris January 1933.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anaïs Bazin: Le Choléra morbus à Paris. Retrieved October 14, 2018 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Corresponds to the doctor (without doctorate)
  2. ↑ The Salpêtrière is in official parlance the Hospice de la Vieillesse-Femmes , the corresponding facility for men was in the Bicêtre Castle near Paris. His job was that of an old people's home , caring for cancer patients and the mentally ill.
  3. ↑ Full-time medical training in France in the 19th century
  4. ↑ Jules-Louis BEHIER was later Premier médecin du roi, a member of the Académie de médecine
personal data
SURNAME Dechambre, Amédée
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Sens
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 1886