Gaspard Laurent Bayle

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Gaspard Laurent Bayle

Gaspard Laurent Bayle (born August 18, 1774 in Vernet , † May 11, 1816 in Paris ) was a French doctor. Antoine Laurent Jessé Bayle was his nephew.

Live and act

Born to wealthy landowners in the remote village of Vernet in the Provence mountains , Gaspard Laurent Bayle was sent to the Collège d ' Embrun at the age of twelve . There he received mathematics lessons from the Jesuit Father Rossignol, author of a paper in which he contradicted Buffon's theory of the origin of the earth . In 1790 Bayle entered a seminary, where he completed the philosophy course and a year of theology studies. The moment he was about to be ordained a priest , he decided to become a lawyer . At the age of 19 he was elected a member of the Department Council. When Barras and Fréron were sent south by the National Convention in March 1793 , Bayle and his friend M. Thomas were chosen to greet them on behalf of the city of Digne . The next day, his troubled parents arranged for him to travel to Montpellier , and so it happened that he began to study medicine. After studying medicine in Montpellier , he entered the medical service of the Armée du Midi in 1796 .

In 1798 Bayle continued his medical studies in Paris , where he received his doctorate in 1801. He successfully applied for the position of an intern ("élève internal") at the Hôpital de la Charité under Corvisart . At the intercession of Corvisart, he became provisional assistant in 1805, permanent assistant in 1807 at the Hôpital de la Charité and finally in 1808 Napoleon's personal physician (“médecin par quartier”) .

Bayle was an excellent practitioner and at the same time the leading theoretician of the pathological-anatomical Paris school. As with Philippe Pinel, his nosography was not based on symptoms but on lesions.

Bayle's main work is a treatise on tuberculosis based on various clinical and pathological-anatomical observations in the Corvisart School . Bayle distinguished between forty sub-groups and six main groups in this nosological complex. He differentiated between tubercular, granulating, melanotic-anthracotic, ulcerative, calcifying and cancerous forms.

Gaspard Laurent Bayle was a teacher and friend of René Laënnec (1781-1826). Bayle died of consumption at the age of only 41.

Works (selection)

  • Considérations sur la nosologie, la médecine d'observation, et de la médecine-pratique; suivis de l'histoire d'une maladie gangréneuse, non décrite jusqu'à ce jour. Gabon, Paris 1802 (digitized version) Reprinted in: Encyclopédie des sciences médicales. 7th department. Collection of classic authors. Paris 1838, pp. 501–533 (digitized version )
  • Research on phthisie pulmonaire. Ouvrage lu à la société de la faculté de médecine de Paris, dans various séances, en 1809 he 1810. Gabon, Paris 1810 (digitized) . Reprinted in: Encyclopédie des sciences médicales. 7th department. Collection of classic authors. Paris 1838, pp. 349–500 (digitized version )
    • William Barrow (translator). Researches on pulmonary phthisis, from the French of GL Bayle . Harris, Liverpool 1815 (digitized)
  • Traité des maladies cancéreuses. 2 volumes. M. Laurent, Paris 1833 (digitized version)

Journal and encyclopedia articles

  • Journal de Corvisart
    • Volume 5 (Year XI)
      • P. 62: Remarques sur les corps fibreux qui se développent dans les parois de la matrice . Reprinted in: Encyclopédie des sciences médicales. 7th department. Collection of classic authors. Paris 1838, pp. 552–558 (digitized version )
      • P. 72: Remarques on the structure of the parois de l'estomac affecté de squirre.
      • P. 238: Remarques sur les ulcères de la matrice.
      • S. 511: Notice sur les maladies qui règnent à Paris depuis le mois de nivôse . Reprinted in: Encyclopédie des sciences médicales. 7th department. Collection of classic authors. Paris 1838, pp. 559-565 (digitized version )
    • Volume 6 (year XI), p. 5: Remarques sur les tuberculoses . Reprinted in: Encyclopédie des sciences médicales. 7th department. Collection of classic authors. Paris 1838, pp. 588–603 (digitized version )
    • Volume 9 (Year XIII)
      • P. 285: Remarques sur l'induration blanche des organes . Reprinted in: Encyclopédie des sciences médicales. 7th department. Collection of classic authors. Paris 1838, pp. 566-568 (digitized version )
      • P. 427: Remarques sur la dégénérescence tuberculeuse non enkystée du tissu des organes .
    • Volume 10 (year XIII), p. 32: Remarques sur la dégénérescence tuberculeuse non enkystée du tissu des organes . Reprinted in: Encyclopédie des sciences médicales. 7th department. Collection of classic authors. Paris 1838, pp. 569-587 (digitized version )
    • Volume 11 (Year XIV). P. 563: Observation sur la fièvre intermittente d'abord régulière puis quarte adynamique .
  • Bibliothèque médicale
    • Volume 10 (year XIII), p. 290: Idée générale de la thérapeutique . Reprinted in: Encyclopédie des sciences médicales. 7th department. Collection of classic authors. Paris 1838, pp. 604–610 (digitized version )
    • Volume 12 (1806), p. 179: Histoire générale de l'hydrophobie ou de la rage .
    • Volume 25 (1812), p. 308: Vues théoriques et pratiques sur le cancer .
    • Volume 36 (1812), p. 145: Considérations générales sur les secours que l'anatomie pathologique peut fournir à la médecine .
    • Volume 37 (1812), p. 37 and p. 165: Mémoire sur la phthisie pulmonaire .
  • Dictionaire des Sciences médicales
    • Anatomie pathologique. Considérations générales. Volume 2, Panckoucke, Paris 1812, pp. 61–79 (digitized version )
    • Cancer . Volume 3, Panckoucke, Paris 1812, pp. 537–679 (digitized version )
    • Oedème de la glotte. Volume 18, Panckoucke, Paris 1817, pp. 505-515 (digitized version ) . Based on: Mémoire sur une maladie à laquelle on peut donner le nom d'oedème de la Glotte, ou d'angine laryngée oedémateuse. Lu à la séance de la Société de l'Ecole de Médecine, le 18 août 1808. Printed in: Encyclopédie des sciences médicales. 7th department. Collection of classic authors. Paris 1838, pp. 534–551 (digitized version )

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wolfgang U. Eckart : Gaspard-Laurent Bayle, in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition Springer Heidelberg, 2006, p. 34. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bayle, Gaspard Laurent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1774
PLACE OF BIRTH Network
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1816
Place of death Paris