Louis Jean Odier

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Louis Jean Odier , (the elder) (born March 17, 1748 in Geneva , † April 14, 1817 ibid) was a Geneva doctor.

life and work

LJ Odier was the son of Antoine Odier (1699–1775), a merchant, and his wife Louise de Villas (1710–1787). Odier studied human sciences at the Geneva Academy and from 1767 medicine in Edinburgh , where he received his doctorate in 1770. The subject of his dissertation, which was written in Latin, was Epistola physiologica inauguralis de elementariis musicæ sensationibus . He was a student of William Cullen (1710-1790). He adopted his nosological assumptions from him .

On February 28, 1780, Odier married Andrienne le Cointe (approx. 1762-1830). Their children were - sorted by age - Jean-Louis-Gédéon Odier (1781–1799), Jacques-Louis Odier (1783–1843), Ami Odier (1784–1789), Amélie Odier (1786–1840) and Anne-Louise Odier-Junie (1795-1859).

He completed his training in London's St Thomas' Hospital , as well as in Leyden and Paris, and finally returned in 1773 to Geneva, where he worked as a doctor.

With Daniel de La Roche and Charles-Guillaume Dunant (1749-1808) he wrote a Geneva pharmacopoeia Pharmacopoea Genevensis ad usum nosocomiorum , which he published in 1780, and dealt with questions of public hygiene and medical education. On the occasion of Geneva reunification with France, he was appointed honorary professor of medicine in 1799, a position he held until 1817. He was a confidante of Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) in Coppet .

From its foundation in 1796, he contributed to the dissemination of medical achievements from England in Europe as an employee of the Bibliothèque britannique . The Bibliothèque britannique was a monthly journal of the sciences and the arts, published in Geneva. Odier reviewed Edward Jenner's work on vaccination in 1798, the year it was published . He contributed to the spread of this preventive method. The French term vaccine ( vaccine from Latin vaccina - the one derived from cows ) for the English term cow-pox ( cowpox ) goes back to him. He coined the term neuroma . In 1803 Odier published the lectures he gave as Manuel de médecine pratique , which numerous doctors and medical officers used as a standard work. In it he described a solitary tumor of the radial nerve as a espèce d'anevrisme du nerf (a kind of expansion of the nerve), which was characterized by a gonflement accidentel (an accidental swelling).

In addition, he drafted a Geneva penal code, was a member of the Council of Two Hundred in 1788 and during the French rule (see also History of the Canton of Geneva ) a member of several political associations, such as in 1793 as President of the Geneva National Assembly. From 1814 Odier was a member of the Representative Council. In 1810 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris.

Works

  • Odier, LJ: Epistola physiologica inauguralis de elementariis musicæ sensationibus . Quam,… pro gradu doctoris,… eruditorum examini subjicit Ludovicus Odier, Edinburgi: Apud Balfour, Auld, et Smellie, 1770
  • Odier, LJ; de LaRoche, D .; Dunant, Ch.G .: Pharmacopoea Genevensis ad usum nosocomiorum . Geneva: Bonnant, 1780. - XII, 199 pp.
  • Odier, LJ: Manuel de Médecine-Pratique Ou Sommaire D'un Cours Gratuit, donné en 1800, 1801 et 1804 aux officiers de santé du Département du Léman, avec une petite pharmacopée à leur usage . Paschoud, 1811
  • Odier, LJ: Reflexions sur la Vaccine. Mémoire on the inoculation of the vaccine . 14 pp. Genève: Extrait des 113, 114 de la Bibliothêque Brittanique

literature

  • Morsier, G. de: La vie et l'œuvre de Louis O., docteur et professeur en médecine (1748-1817). In: Gesnerus . Vol. 32, 1975, pp. 248-270.
  • Rieder, P .: Séduire en raisonnant: les conquêtes épistolaires de Louis O. (1748-1817), médecin et citoyen de Genève. In: La correspondance familiale en Suisse romande aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles , ed. by P. Henry, J.-P. Jelmini, 2006, pp. 75-95.
  • Hans, Nicholas: Educational relations of Geneva and England in the eighteenth century. In: British Journal of Educational Studies Volume. Vol. 15, Issue 3, 1967.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Société Genevoise de Généalogie
  2. ↑ Vincent Barras: Louis Odier. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 23, 2010 , accessed June 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Genealogy of the parents
  4. ↑ S. Jarcho: Hospitals depicted in old maps and panoramas. IV. Seventeenth century Geneva. In: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. Volume 48, Number 6, July 1972, pp. 880-883, PMID 4557524 , PMC 1806760 (free full text).
  5. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter O. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 28, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Odier, Louis Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Odier, Louis Jean the Elder
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Provencal doctor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1817
Place of death Geneva