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Joseph Honoré Simon Beau

Born  1806
Died  1865

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French physician, born May 8, 1806, in Collonges, département Ain, died August 11, 1865, Paris.

Biography of Joseph Honoré Simon Beau

Joseph Honoré Simon Beau made on of the first descriptions of cardiac insufficiency and asystole, sometimes called Beau's syndrome. Beau described the phenomenon i 1846.

18: Beau commenced his studies in Lyon, then went to Paris and received his doctorate in that city in 1836 with a thesis entitled "De l'emploi des évacuans dans la maladie connue sous les noms gastroentérite, dothinthérite etc." In 1839 he became physician at the Bureau central, later at the Hôpital Cochin, and, eventually, at the Charité. In 1844 he became he became professeur agrégé at the medical faculty, and until 1852 participated in competitive examinations - concourses - for medical chairs.

All his works are recognized by their originality, none of them is a mere compilation, and he was one principal promoters of pathological physiology. He is particularly famous for his investigations of the physiology of the hearts and the lungs. These were first published in the Archives générales de médecine from 1834 to 1845, and collected in his "Traité experimental ..." published in Paris 1856.

Bibliography

  • Traité expérimental et clinique d'auscultation appliqué à l'étude des maladies du poumon et du coeur. Paris, 1856.
    A compilation of treatises published in the Archives général de médecine, 1834-1845. Mostly in Archives général de médecin:
  • Recherches statistiques pour servir à l'histoire de l'epilepsie et de l'hystérie. 1836.
  • Sur les dermalgies et partculièrement, sur la dermalgie rheumatismale ou rhumatisme de la peau. 1841.
  • Recherches sur le mécanisme des mouvements respiratoires.
    With Maissiat. 1842.
  • Études cliniques sur les maladies des vieillards.
    Journ de méd, 1843.
  • Sur certains caractères de sémiéiologie rétrospective presentés par les ongles.
    Archives générales de médecine, Paris, 1846.
  • Sur la névrite de les névralgies.
    1847. Union médicale, Paris, 1849, 1851.
  • Recherches cliniques sur l'anesthésie. 1848.
  • Études analytiques de physiologie et de pathologie sur l’appareil spléno-hépatique. 1851.
  • Sur une affection qu’on peut appeler paralysie générale aiguë.
    1852.
  • Le siége et la nature de la coqueluche. 1856.
  • Sur l’arthralgie de sphthisiques.
    Union médicale, Paris, 1856.
  • De la valeur thérapeutique des saignées générales dans les phlegmasies.
    Gazette des hôpitaux civils et militaires, Paris, 1859.
  • Quelques réflexions sur le sphygmomètre cardiaque de MM. Chauveau et Marey.
    Gazette hebdomadaire de médecine et de chirurgie, Paris, 1862.
    Referring to Jean-Baptiste Auguste Chaveau (1827-1917) and Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904).
  • Nouvelles réflexions sur un nouveau tracé cardiographique de MM. Chaveau et Marey.
    Gazette hebdomadaire de médecine et de chirurgie, Paris, 1864. ·
  • Traité de la dyspepsie. Avec une préface du Dr. Hédolin.
    Paris, 1866. Posthumous publication.
Obituary:
  • Parrot in Archives général de médecine, 1865, II, page 589.
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