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Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance
French pathologist, born February 22, 1797, Saint Pal en Chalencon, département Haute-Loire; died April 18, 1832, Paris.
Associated eponyms:
Dance's sign
Empty right lower quadrant found in patients (usually children) with ileocecal intussusception.
Biography:
Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance was the son of a physician and studied medicine in Paris from 1818. he was conferred doctor of medicine in 1826 and that same year became agrégé at the faculty. From 1830 he was physician to the Hôpital Cochin, as well as to a Bureau de charité de bienfaisance. He was employed as a teacher at the clinic at the Hôtel-Dieu, but worked as such only for a few days, as he succumbed to cholera on April 18, 1832.
Dance possessed a keen talent of observation, and despite his premature death left a large number of valuable publications.
Bibliography:
- Essai sur la mérite aiguë puerpérale etc. Doctoral thesis, 1926.
- Guide pour l'étude de clinique médicale.
- De la phlébite utérine et de la phlébite en général.
Archives générales de médecine, Paris, 1828, XVIII.
- Observations sur plusieurs affections de l’utérus et de ses annexes.
Archives générales de médecine, Paris, 1829, XX and XXI.
- Mém. sur l’hydrocéphale aiguê observée chez l’adulte.
Archives générales de médecine, Paris, 1829, XX and XXI.
- Recherches sur les altérations que présentent les visceres dans la scarlatine et la variole etc. Archives générales de médecine, Paris, 1830.
- Mém. sur le traitement des fièvres graves connues sous les diverses dénominations de gastro-entérite, dothinentérite etc.
Archives générales de médecine, Paris, 1830, XXIV.
Archives générales de médecine, Paris, 1831, XXV.
- Observations sur une espèce de tétanos intermittent.
Archives générales de médecine, 1831, 26: 190-205.
An important early description of parathyroid tetany.
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