Jean Nicolas Demarquay

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Jean-Nicolas Demarquay

Jean Nicolas Demarquay (born December 4, 1814 in Longueval ( Picardy ), † June 21, 1875 ibid) was a French surgeon and author of extensive scientific reports on studies in his field.

He was the first to detect roundworms in the blood of patients in 1863 and in the urine of 1866. He was a friend and research colleague of the zoologist Auguste Duméril , who was about the same age , with whom he published a work on experimental studies of changes in the temperature balance of animals through the introduction of various therapeutic agents. He had also written his doctoral thesis on this subject in 1847. He was then chief physician at the Dubois Hospital, now the Hôpital Fernand-Widal . He became interested in hypnosis and published extensively on various operative procedures. In 1866 he presented a paper on oxygen therapy .

Street sign on the corner of Rue de l'Aqueduc

Demarquay had a lifelong bond with his home in northern France; he bequeathed his extensive collection of scientific drawings to the Musée de Picardie .

A street, the Rue Demarquay , was named after him in the 10th arrondissement of Paris in 1882, seven years after his death .

Works (selection)

  • Mémoire sur la loi de formation des abcès locaux primitifs extérieurs à l'os, Rignoux publishing house, Paris 1846
  • Observations et considérations sur les tumeurs parotidiennes et sur leur ablation, Publisher: F. Malteste et Cie, Paris 1857
  • Recherches sur l'hypnotisme ou sommeil nerveux, comprenant une série d'expérimences instituées à la maison municipale de sante, JB Bailliére, Paris 1860
  • Des lésions du pénis, Pierre Asselin et Au Bureau du Moniteur des Sciences, Paris 1861
  • Mémoire sur la pénétration des liquides pulvérisés dans les voies respiratoires, Gazette médicale, Paris, Vol. 1, Pierre Asselin, Paris 1862
  • Note sur une tumeur des bourses contenant un liquide laiteux (galactocèle de Vidal) et renfermant de petits êtres vermiformes que l'on peut considérer comme les helminthes hématoïdes à l'état d'embryon, Gazette médicale, Paris, vol. 18, p. 665-7, 1863
  • De la Glycérine des ses applications à la chirurgie et à la médecine, Pierre Asselin, Paris 1867

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ L'Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
  3. ↑ Édimark Santé: La Lettre du Pneumologue - Vol. IX, No. 5 - Sept-Oct 2006 ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 3 (French)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.edimark.fr
personal data
SURNAME Demarquay, Jean Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH December 4, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Longueval ( Picardy )
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1875
Place of death Longueval ( Picardy )