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Augustin Marie Morvan
French physician, born 1819, Lannilis, département Finistère; died March 20, 1897, Lannilis.
Associated eponyms:
Morvan's chorea
Attacks of chorea affecting muscles at rest.
Morvan's disease
A historical term for a peculiar form of syringomyelia.
Biography:
Augustin Marie Morvan was the son of Jean-Marie and Louise Marie Prudence, née Floch, agriculturists in Lannilis. He had seven brothsers and sisters. He attended primary and secondary school at the college in Lesneven and began his medical studies at the l'Ecole de Médecine de la Marine in Brest, continuing at the Paris faculty. He became interne des Hôpitaux de Paris in 1843, working under Auguste Nélaton (1807-1873), and in 1845 obtained his medical doctorate for a thesis on varicose aneurysms. Following his internship, Morvan decided to leave Paris for his native district of Basse Bretagne, settling in Lannilis. At this time Lannilis was a city of some 3000 inhabitants, surrounded by a densely populated countryside.
Besides his medical practice, Morvan was active in politics, and in 1871 was a deputy to the legislative assembly – inaugurating the 3rd republic.
Morvan is particularly remembered for the Morvan-Roussel law for the protection of children in a difficult life situation and of children who became mothers.
In Brest the Hôpital Augustin Morvan and the Rue Augustin Morvan er named for him.
Morvan was a prolific writer.
Bibliography:
In Gazette hebdomadaire de médecine et de chirurgie, Paris:
- De la parésie analgésique à panaris des extrémités supérieurs ou paréso analgésie des extrémités supérieurs. 1883.
- Nouveaux cas de paréso analgésie des extrémités supérieurs. 1886.
- De la scoliose dans la paréso analgésie. 1887.
- Des arthropathies dans la paréso analgésie. 1887.
- De l'onyxis malin et de son traitement par l'iodoforme. 1888.
- De la chorée fibrillaire. 1890.
- De la fracture de la cavité splénoïde du temporale. 1888.
- Du myxoédème en Basse Bretagne. 1875.
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