|
Disclaimer:
Whonamedit.com does not give medical advice.
This survey of medical eponyms and the persons behind them is meant as a general interest site only. No information found here must under any circumstances be used for medical purposes, diagnostically, therapeutically or otherwise. If you, or anybody close to you, is affected, or believe to be affected, by any condition mentioned here: see a doctor.
|
A recommendation:
Hypography is an open community about science and all things related
|
|
|
Paul Briquet
French physician, born 1796, Châlons-sur-Marne;
died November 25, 1881.
Associated eponyms:
Briquet's ataxia
Hysterical ataxia manifested with weakening of the muscle sense and increased sensibility of the skin.
Briquet's gangrene
Pulmonary gangrene in bronchiectasis.
Briquet's syndrome I
A personality disorder in which alcoholism and somatisation disorder occur.
Briquet's syndrome II
Hysterical paralysis of the diaphragm with aphonia and apnoea.
Biography:
Paul Briquet studied in Paris and received his doctorate there in 1824 with the dissertation Sur la phlébectasie ou dilatation variqueuse des veines. He was subsequently agrégé libre at the faculty, physician at Hôpital Cochin and the Charité. In 1860 he became a member of the Académie de médecine, later professor agrégé and Médecin honoraire des hôpitaux.
Bibliography:
- Sur la phlébectasie ou dilatation variqueuse des veines.
Doctoral thesis, Paris 1824.
- De l’éclairage artificiel, consideré sous les point de vue de l’hygiène publique et privée. Thèse d’agrégation, 1837.
- Recherches sur l’étiologie des tubercules. 1842.
- Traité pratique et analytique du choléra-morbus. 1850.
- Traité thérapeutique du quinguina et de ses préparations.
Prize-winning paper for the Académie des sciences. 1853.
- Traité clinique et thérapeutique de l’hysterie.
Paris, Bailliere, 1859.
|
|
|
