Charles Achard (medic)

Emile Charles Achard

Émile Charles Achard (born July 24, 1860 in Paris , † August 7, 1944 ) was a French doctor.

Life

Achard studied medicine in Paris and received his doctorate in 1887 (Les fonctions du foie). In 1893 he became a hospital doctor in Paris (Médecin des Hôpitaux) and in 1895 Agrégé. From 1897 to 1907 he was at the Hôpital Tenon and from 1907 to 1919 at the Hôpital Necker. He became professor of pathology and was from 1919 to 1929 professor of internal medicine in Paris at the Hôpital Beaujon and was from 1929 to 1934 professor at the Hôpital Cochin.

He described paratyphoid fever in 1896 with Raoul Bensaude (1866–1938) , introduced the term and isolated one of the pathogens (Salmonella paratyphi B).

Achard introduced one of the first tests for kidney function, which was based on how quickly a dye (methylene blue) appeared in the urine after injection (Achard-Castaigne test with Joseph Castaigne (1871–1951)). He published, among other things, on European sleeping sickness and nephritis (Bright's disease) and first described the Achard-Thiers syndrome and the Achard syndrome.

From 1929 he was a member of the Academie des Sciences and secretary of the Académie des Médecine. He was founding president of the French Society of Neurology and commander of the Legion of Honor (1931).

Fonts

with Georges Maurice Debove , Joseph Castaigne: Manuel des maladies du tube digestif, Paris 1907

Web links

Entry in Whonamedit? Dictionary of medical eponyms

References and comments

^ Dictionnaire médical de l'Académie de Médecine , then with symptoms of Marfan's syndrome and Treacher-Collins syndrome
↑ Achard syndrome , hereditary disease of connective tissue with brachycephaly , arachnodactyly , dysostoses , drooping lower jaw, but different from Marfan syndrome, in the Lexikon der Biologie, Spektrum Verlag as Achard-Marfan syndrome synonymous with Mafard syndrome.

personal data
SURNAME	Achard, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Achard, Émile Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	July 24, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	August 7, 1944

[1] Dictionnaire médical de l'Académie de Médecine , then with symptoms of Marfan's syndrome and Treacher-Collins syndrome

[2] Achard syndrome , hereditary disease of connective tissue with brachycephaly , arachnodactyly , dysostoses , drooping lower jaw, but different from Marfan syndrome, in the Lexikon der Biologie, Spektrum Verlag as Achard-Marfan syndrome synonymous with Mafard syndrome.