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Jean Pierre David
French physician, 1737-1784.
Associated eponyms:
Pott's disease
Caries or osteitis of the vertebrae, usually of tuberculous origin (mycobacterium tuberculosis), characterized by softening and collapse of the vertebrae, often resulting in kyphosis, a hunchback deformity (Pott's curvature).
Biography:
Jean Pierre David first had private preparations while serving a physician in Segssel, before going to Lyon and Paris. He first became maître en chirurgie (1764), and soon afterward was conferred doctor of medicine. His father-in-law, Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (or Lecat) (1700-1768) arranged his succession to the chair as chirurgien en chef at the Hôtel-Dieu in Rouen, where he produced a number of works of some importance, as several of them were awarded prizes.
His father-in-law is eponymously remembered for Le Cat's gulf, which is the hollow of the bulbous portion of the urethra.
Bibliography:
- Dissertation sur ce qu’il convient de faire pour diminier ou supprimer le lait des femmes. Paris, 1863.
Awarded a prize by the Ductch Society in Haarlem.
- Sur la manière d’ouvrir et de traiter les abscès dans toutes les parties du corps. Paris, 1764.
Awarded a prize by the Académie royale de chirurgie.
- Mémoire sur les contrecoups.
Awarded a prize by the Académie royale de chirurgie.
- Dissertation sur le méchanisme et les usages de la respiration. Paris, 1766.
Awarded a prize by the Académie des sciences in Rouen.
- Dissertation sur les effets du mouvement et du repos dans les maladies chirurgicales. Paris, 1779.
- Traité de la nutrition et de l’accroissement etc. Paris, 1771.
- Observations sur une maladie des os connue sous le nom nécrose. Paris, 1782.
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