Louis Berlioz

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Louis Berlioz 1776-1848
Birthplace of Louis Berlioz and Hector Berlioz in La Côte-Saint-André

Louis-Joseph Berlioz ( June 9, 1776 in La Côte-Saint-André - July 28, 1848 there ) was a French country doctor. The composer Hector Berlioz was his son. Louis Berlioz became known as the pioneer of acupuncture treatment in France.

Life

Louis Berlioz was the eldest son of Louis-Joseph Berlioz (1747-1815), an "advocate in the Parliament of the Dauphiné ". He grew up in the provincial town of La Côte-Saint-André , between Vienne and Grenoble . It is not known whether he studied medicine in Paris or in Montpellier . On February 6, 1802, he received his doctorate in Paris with the thesis: Dissertation on les phénomènes et les maladies que produit la première apparition des règles. ( Dissertation on the phenomena and diseases caused by menarche . ) At the beginning of 1802 he married Antoinette-Joséphina Marmion, the daughter of a "lawyer in the Parliament of Grenoble".

Louis Berlioz opened a practice in the house where he was born in La Côte-Saint-André . His son Hector described him in his memoirs as “a steadfast physician who instilled great confidence both in the small town in which he lived and in the neighboring towns and was more of a benefactor of the poor and peasants than he lived by his class would have". Hector classified his father's worldview as liberal, that is, he described him as “a person without social, political and religious prejudices”.

In 1817 Louis Berlioz was appointed mayor of La Côte-Saint-André . He soon resigned from this office. On April 5, 1825, he became the corresponding “adjoint correspondant” of the medicine section of the “Académie royale de Médecine” in Paris. In his final years he suffered from chronic stomach disease and the only way to soothe his pain was by taking opium. He died on July 28, 1848 in his home in La Côte-Saint-André.

acupuncture

In 1811, Louis Berlioz submitted a paper to a competition of the Paris Medical Society in which he described the experience he had gained in treatment with acupuncture since 1810 . The Paris Medical Society rejected the method and accused it of presumptuousness. In 1816 Berlioz published this work together with an award-winning work on chronic diseases in Montpellier in 1810 under the title: Mémoire sur les maladies chroniques, les évacuations sanguines et l'acupuncture.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Today the Musée Hector Berlioz. (Digitized version) .
  2. ↑ Hector Berlioz. Mémoires. Chapter II. Mon père . (Digitized version)
  3. ^ Mémoire de l'Académie royale de médecine. Paris 1828, p. 41.
  4. ^ Jean Lacassagne . Le docteur Louis Berlioz. Introducteur de l'Acupuncture en France. In: Presse médicale. October 6, 1954.
  5. ↑ Adolphe Boschot. The romantic life of Hector Berlioz. Fuessli, Zurich 1933. (Original: Une vie romatique. Hector Berlioz. Plon, Paris 1920.)
  6. ↑ Louis Berlioz. Mémoire sur les maladies chroniques, les evacuations sanguines et l'acupuncture. Croullebois, Paris 1816. (In it Berlioz writes about acupuncture in part I, chap. 41, p. 82 (digitized version ) and in part II, chap. 77, p. 296–311.) (Digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Berlioz, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berlioz, Louis-Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French country doctor
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH La Cote-Saint-André
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1848
Place of death La Cote-Saint-André