Jean-Baptiste Timothée Baumes

Jean-Baptiste Timothée Baumes (born January 20, 1756 in Lunel , † July 19, 1828 in Montpellier ) was a French doctor, professor of pathology and member of the medical society in Paris.

Jean-Baptiste Timothée Baumes was born in Lunel in the French region of Occitania . He attended the monastery school of the Benedictine abbey of Sorèze until 1763. After finishing school, he studied medicine in Montpellier , where he also received his doctorate. At first he was primarily interested in childhood diseases. In 1802 he received a professorship for pathology, meteorology and nosology at the Montpellier Medical School. He was a member of the medical law firms in Paris, Bordeaux and Marseille. Building on the advances in chemistry at that time, he tried to design an iatrochemical concept, for which, however, he found only a few followers. According to his theory of the organism, certain main chemical elements such as oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus were basic components of the body. Baumes saw diseases as a disruption of the heat balance, the oxygen balance, the hydrogen balance, etc.

Jean-Baptiste Timothée Baumes published comparatively eagerly. Paul-Joseph Barthez praised some of the publications.

Works

• De l'usage du quinquina dans les fièvres rémittentes , Paris 1790.
• About convulsions in children, their causes and their treatment, Translator: Cappel, Wilhelm Friedrich, 1791. Digitized
• D. Baumes, member of the Medicinischen Societät zu Nismes, physician at the same hospital, member of the Royal Medicinischen Societät zu Paris, the Philadelphischen society. in the french. Cap., Correspondents of the Royal Academy of Sciences, etc. Treatise on the abandoned sentence: That it is to be determined by observations what kind of diseases are which arise from the evaporation of stagnant water and swampy areas, with which both the inhabitants of such areas, as those who are working on their dehydration are also attacked, and what the means are to forestall them and to cure them, who in 1789 received the award from the royal medical faculty at Paris, 1792. Digitized
• Traité Elémentaire de Nosologie, contenant une classification de toutes les maladies , Montpellier 1806.

literature

• Wolfgang U. Eckart : Jean Baptiste Timothée Baumes , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart and Christoph Gradmann (eds.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the present , 3rd edition 2006 Springer Verlag Heidelberg, Berlin, New York p. 33. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .