Prosper Menière
Prosper Menière (born June 18, 1799 in Angers , † February 7, 1862 in Paris ) was a French physician and ear specialist . According to him, which is Meniere's disease named.
Life
After studying in Angers, he continued his medical studies in Paris and then worked as an assistant to, among others, Guillaume Dupuytren at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Paris , where he obtained his doctorate in 1828. He was involved in the fight against the cholera epidemic of 1835 and was accepted into the Legion of Honor for his services . In 1838 he became director of the Institute for the Deaf and Mute in Paris. He died of pneumonia in 1862.
In addition to his intensive professional activity, he remained open to the art and culture of his time, he was friends with Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac .
In 1861 he described a syndrome of paroxysmal dizziness combined with progressive hearing loss and ringing in the ears ( Menière's disease ). He defined these complaints as a problem of the inner ear (until then they were considered a form of epilepsy) and distinguished them from vertigo of central origin. He also attributed the disease to an inflammation of the equilibrium organ (labyrinth).
Jean-Martin Charcot made this triad of symptoms known as Maladie de Menière (Menière's disease) in 1874 .
Spelling of the name
Prosper Menière wrote himself only with a grave accent on the second "e", as evidenced by several handwritten letters with his signature. In the literature there are often other spellings (Ménière, Menier), some of which stem from the spelling on the burial chapel of the Menière family in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris.
literature
- MA Thorp, AL James: Prosper Ménière. In: The Lancet . Volume 366, Number 9503, December 2005, pp. 2137-2139, ISSN 1474-547X . doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (05) 67144-9 . PMID 16360793 .
- Ralf Bröer: Menière, Prosper. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 969.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ralf Bröer: Menière, Prosper. In: Encyclopedia of Medical History. 2005, p. 969.
- ^ Prosper Menière: Mémoire sur les lésions de l'oreille internal donnant lieu à des symptômes de congestion cérébrale apoplectiforme. In: Gaz. méd. de Paris. Volume 3, Volume 16, 1861, pp. 597-601.
- ^ Ralf Bröer: Menière, Prosper. In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century. 1st edition. CH Beck Munich 1995, p. 249; Medical glossary. From antiquity to the present. 2nd Edition. 2001, p. 216; 3. Edition. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, p. 225. doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
- ↑ From the French Wikipedia: il n'y a pas de “é” à Menière, du moins pour Prosper, l'état civil a rajouté le “é” sur l'extrait de naissance du fils de Prosper (there is no “é "With Menière, at least with Prosper, the registry office has added the" é "to the birth certificate of Prosper's son)
- ↑ A. Rauchfuss: On the correct spelling of Prosper Menière's name and some comments on his life and work. In: Laryngol Rhinol Otol. Stuttgart. Vol. 63, No. 8, Aug 1984, pp. 381-385.
- ↑ Olaf Michel: Menière's disease and related balance disorders . Thieme, 1998, ISBN 3-13-104091-2 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Menière, Prosper |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1799 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Angers |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 7, 1862 |
| Place of death | Paris |