Jacques Forestier

Jacques Forestier (born July 27, 1890 in Aix-les-Bains , † March 15, 1978 in Paris ) was a French internist and rheumatologist , as well as an Olympic silver medalist in rugby union .

Life

Forestier was a war hero of the First World War , he was admitted to the Legion of Honor with the rank of Commandeur , as well as the Order of Croix de guerre with several ribbons and the Order of Merit . He was a successful athlete who represented France in international competitions in rugby, swimming and skiing. With the French rugby selection he won at the Olympics in 1920 , the silver medal ; In addition to the game against the USA at the Olympic tournament, he also played another international game against Wales at the Five Nations 1920 tournament .

Forestier studied medicine in Paris, where he was a student of Jean-Athanase Siccard .

In 1928 he succeeded his father as director of the therapy center in Aix-les-Bains .

He is the discoverer of myelography with oily contrast medium ( Lipiodol ), which he researched with Jean Athanase Sicard and which was used in myelo- and bronchography. In the 1930s, he treated rheumatism patients with a gold compound. His therapy was based on the widespread, but incorrect, belief that rheumatoid arthritis is an atypical form of tuberculosis . However, it was the first effective therapy and was not replaced by treatments with corticoids until the late 1980s.

1950 Forestier described together with his students Jaume Red-Querol with the "senile stiffening hyperostosis (Engl. The spine" senile ankylosing hyperostosis of the spine , the first as) a skeletal disorder "elderly" diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis was named after him. In 1976 Donald R. Resnick and Gen Niwayama coined the term Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis ( DISH for short ), which is currently widespread. They pointed out that the disease was described by the radiologist Albert Oppenheimer as early as 1942.

Publications

Method radiographique d'exploration de la cavité épidurale par la lipiodol. Written with Jean Athanase Sicard (1872-1929). Revue neurologique, Paris, 1921, 28: 1264-1266. Positive contrast myelography with iodised oil (lipiodol). Lipids (iodised oil) first used in radiology.
The exploration radiologique des cavités broncho-pulmonaires par les injections intra-trachéales d'huile iodée. With Jean Athanase Sicard. J méd Franç, 1924, 13: 3-9.
L'aurotherapy dans les rhumatismes chroniques. Bulletins et memoires de la Société medicale des hôpitaux de Paris, 1929, 323-327. Introduction of gold therapy.
Xanthélasma disséminé et symétrique, sans insuffisance hépatique. Bulletins et memoires de la Société medicale des hôpitaux de Paris, 1889, 3 sér., 6: 412-419.

Web links

Portraits de Medecins
Whonamedit.com
Jacques Forestier in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ GD Kersley: Obituary - Dr. Jacques Forestier ; In: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases , 1978, issue 37, p. 388. PMC 1000253 (free full text).
^ Scrum database: entry on Jacques Forestier. ESPN , accessed September 16, 2009 .
↑ Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Sicard, Jean Athanse. 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. 1327.
^ Jacques Forestier, Jaume Rotes-Querol: Senile ankylosing hyperostosis of the spine. In: Ann Rheum Dis. 1950 Dec; 9 (4): 321-30. PMID 14800245 , PMC 1011670 (free full text).
↑ Fábio A. Nascimento et al .: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis: A review. In: Surg Neurol Int. 2014 Apr 16; 5 (Suppl 3): S122-5. doi : 10.4103 / 2152-7806.130675 (currently unavailable) , PMID 24843807 , PMC 4023007 (free full text).
↑ Albert Oppenheimer Calcification and ossification of vertebral ligaments (spondylitis ossificans ligamentosa): Roentgen study of pathogenesis and clinical significance. In: Radiology. 1942; 38: 160-173. doi : 10.1148 / 38.2.160 .
↑ Donald R. Resnick et al .: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) [ankylosing hyperostosis of Forestier and Rotes-Querol]. In: Semin Arthritis Rheum. 1978 Feb; 7 (3): 153-87. doi : 10.1016 / 0049-0172 (78) 90036-7 , PMID 341323 .

personal data
SURNAME	Forestier, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French internist, rheumatologist and rugby union player
DATE OF BIRTH	July 27, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aix-les-Bains
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 1978
Place of death	Paris

[AotRD-1] GD Kersley: Obituary - Dr. Jacques Forestier ; In: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases , 1978, issue 37, p. 388. PMC 1000253 (free full text).

[2] Scrum database: entry on Jacques Forestier. ESPN , accessed September 16, 2009 .

[3] Barbara I. Tshisuaka: Sicard, Jean Athanse. 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. 1327.

[4] Jacques Forestier, Jaume Rotes-Querol: Senile ankylosing hyperostosis of the spine. In: Ann Rheum Dis. 1950 Dec; 9 (4): 321-30. PMID 14800245 , PMC 1011670 (free full text).

[Nasciemento-5] Fábio A. Nascimento et al .: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis: A review. In: Surg Neurol Int. 2014 Apr 16; 5 (Suppl 3): S122-5. doi : 10.4103 / 2152-7806.130675 (currently unavailable) , PMID 24843807 , PMC 4023007 (free full text).

[6] Albert Oppenheimer Calcification and ossification of vertebral ligaments (spondylitis ossificans ligamentosa): Roentgen study of pathogenesis and clinical significance. In: Radiology. 1942; 38: 160-173. doi : 10.1148 / 38.2.160 .

[7] Donald R. Resnick et al .: Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) [ankylosing hyperostosis of Forestier and Rotes-Querol]. In: Semin Arthritis Rheum. 1978 Feb; 7 (3): 153-87. doi : 10.1016 / 0049-0172 (78) 90036-7 , PMID 341323 .