Jean Guillaume Lugol

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Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol

Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol (born August 18, 1786 in Montauban , † September 16, 1851 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French doctor .

life and work

Lugol studied medicine in Paris and passed his exam in 1812. From 1819 until his retirement he was a doctor at the Hôpital Saint-Louis . He mainly dealt with tuberculosis and scrofula . Is named after him for the disinfection and detection of starch usable Lugol solution .

source

  • BG Firkin & JA Whitworth (1987). Dictionary of Medical Eponyms . Parthenon Publishing. ISBN 1-85070-333-7

Individual evidence

  1. entry to Lugol solution. In: Römpp Online . Georg Thieme Verlag, accessed on May 25, 2014.