Guillaume de Baillou
Guillaume de Baillou (also Ballonius ; * 1538 in Paris , † 1616 there ) was a French doctor and founder of modern epidemiology .
Guillaume de Baillou received his doctorate in 1570. Until 1616 he taught at the university in Paris, where he was also dean of the medical faculty in 1580.
He was a student of Jean Fernel (1497–1558), the personal physician of Heinrich II. Baillou later worked in this position for Heinrich IV.
The terms rheumatism and rheumatism were first used in his work Liber de Rheumatismo et Pleuritide dorsali , published in 1642 . Although he believed, influenced by the teachings of the Corpus Hippocraticum , according to the theory of humors ( humoral pathology ) at the time, that cold phlegm flows from the brain down to the extremities and causes the corresponding complaints, he refrained from speculating in his own precise descriptions of his observations.
Fonts
- Opera medica omnia. Venice 1634–1636.
- Epidemiorum et ephemeridum libri duo. Paris 1640.
- Liber de rheumatismo et pleuritide dorsali. Paris 1642.
literature
- W. Keitel, H. Kaiser: Guillaume de Baillou (1538-1616). Father of 'rheumatism'? In: Journal of Rheumatology . Volume 65, Number 8, December 2006, p. 743 ff.
- Barbarba I. Tshisuaka: Baillou, Guillaume de. 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. 133.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baillou, Guillaume de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ballonius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor and founder of modern epidemiology |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1538 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1616 |
| Place of death | Paris |