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Pierre Alain Bitôt

Born  1822
Died  1888

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French physician, anatomist, physiologist, and surgeon; born 1822, Podensac, département de la Gironde, région Aquitaine; died early February, 1888.

Biography of Pierre Alain Bitôt

Pierre Alain Bitôt went to medical school in Bordeaux where he topped his class in 1846 and gained his M.D. from the faculty of Paris in 1848 with a thesis entitled De la gangrene du pharynx. In 1848 he also joined the anatomy department at the school of medicine - later to become the faculty of medicine - in Bordeaux. There he held posts both in anatomy and physiology, becoming the titular professor of anatomy in 1854 and gained his Chirurgien des Hôpitaux in 1878. He died as chirurgien honoraire of the city hospitals and professeur honorare of the faculty.

Bitôt published on a wide variety of topics, ranging from hare lip to studies of the best form of ligatures to use in limb amputations, the use of quinine sulphate to prevent fever following blood transfusions, as well as some aspects of cerebral anatomy and function.

Bibliography

  • De la greffe animale. 1850.
  • Injection iodée dans l'hydarthrose du genou. 1853.
  • Utilité de l'immobilisation et des purgatifs drastiques dans la carie vertébrale. 1856.
  • Désarticulation médio-tarsiennes. 1857.
  • Désépiphysation à l'extrémité supérieure de l'humerus chez un efant naissant. 1859.
  • Tache héméralopique. 1863.
  • Appareil scapulopelvien. 1865.
  • Perchlorure de fer contre le cancer. 1866.
  • Tuberculose du cervelet. 1860.
  • De la vératrine dans les affections cardiovasculaires. 1872.
  • Du cathéthérisme rigide. 1873.
  • Atrésie des orifices pastérieures des fosses nasales. 1874.
  • Cautérisation de l'arrière-gorge contre certaines nécroses de la tête. 1876.
  • De la ligature pour l'amputation d'un membre. 1876.
  • Du crochet mousse et du crochet dynamométrique dans certains cas de présentation pelvienne. 1877.
  • Essai de stasimétrie. 1878.
  • Essai de topographie cérébrale par la cérébrotomie méthodique. Paris, 1878.
  • Du siége de la direction des irradiations capsulaires chargées de transmettre la parole.
    Archives de neurologie, Paris, 1884.
  • La protubérance annulaire. Bordeaux, 1885.
  • La capsule interne et la couroenne rayonnante de reil.
    Archives de neurologie, III, 1888.
  • August Hirsch (1817-1894), publisher:
    Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker.
    2nd edition. Berlin, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1929.
    First published in 6 volumes 1884-1888. 3rd edition, München 1962.
  • Bernfried Leiber and Theodor Olbert:
    Die klinischen Eponyme. Medizinische Eigennamenbegriffe in Klinik und Praxis.
    Von Professor Dr. med Bernfried Leiber, Frankfurt a. M. und Dr. med Theodor Olbert, Düsseldorf. Urban & Schwarzenberg. München-Berlin-Wien 1968.
  • Barry G. Firkin and Judith A. Whitworth:
    Dictionary of Medical Eponyms.
    The Parthenon Publishing Group. 1989. New edition in 2002.

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