Armand Trousseau
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Armand Trousseau
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Trousseau, photo by Pierre Petit
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Armand Trousseau (born October 14, 1801 in Tours , † June 23, 1867 in Paris ) was a French internist and clinician .
Trousseau began his medical training a. a. with Pierre Fidèle Bretonneau in his native town and later continued in Paris, where he received his doctorate in medicine in 1825. In 1839 he received a chair at the Paris Faculty of Medicine. In 1850 he was appointed professor of clinical medicine and chief physician at the Hôtel Dieu in Paris , where he was primarily concerned with training doctors by observing patients at the bedside. He was one of the first in France to perform intubation and tracheotomy , about which he wrote a monograph in 1851. Trousseau coined the term aphasia in 1864 .
The Trousseau sign is named after him.
Fonts (selection)
- Memoire on a case of tracheostomy pratiquée in the période extreme de croup. In: Journal des connaissances médico-chirurgicales, 1833, 1: 5, 41.
- Together with Hermann Pidoux (1808–1882): Traité de thérapeutique et de matière médicale. 2 volumes, Paris, Béchet jeune, 1836–1839.
- You tubage de la glotte et de la trachéotomie. Paris, 1851.
- Medical Clinic of the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris. translated from the 2nd edition by L. Culmann, Würzburg 1868.
literature
- Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Trousseau, Armand. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1422.
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Remarks
- ↑ According to his son (cf. Jean Greenwell: Doctor Georges Phillipe Trousseau, Royal Physician. In: The Hawaiian Journal of History. Volume 25, 1991, pp. 121-145; here: p. 132). According to some other information on June 27th.
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| SURNAME | Trousseau, Armand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French internist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1801 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tours |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1867 |
| Place of death | Paris |