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Charles-Joseph Bouchard

Born  1837-09-06
Died  1915

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French pathologist, born September 6, 1837, Moutiér en Der, département Haute-Marne; died 1915.

Biography of Charles-Joseph Bouchard

Bouchard first read medicine in Lyon, then, at the age of 25, went to Paris to continue his studies under Charcot. Bouchard was ambitious, gifted, and energetic, and, under Charcot's supervision his career pointed straight up. He became Interne des hôpitaux in 1862 and received his doctorate in 1866 in Paris with the thesis Étude sur quelques points de la pathogénie des hémorrhagies cérébrales. He became médecin du Bureau central in 1870, médecin des hôpitaux (Bicêtre) in 1874, from 1869 was professeur agrégé at the faculty, from 1879 full professor; member of the Academie de Médecine in 1886 and of the institute in 1887.

We thank René Dreuille for information submitted.

Bibliography

  • Études expérimentales sur l'identité de l'herpès circiné et de l'herpès tonsurant
    Gazette médicale de Lyon, 1860.
  • La pellagre observée à Lyon. Gazette médicale de Lyon, 1861.
  • Recherches nouvelles sur la pellagre.
    Mémoires et comptes rendus de la Société des sciences médicales de Lyon, 1862.
  • Des dégenerations secondaires de la moëlle épinière.
    Archives générales de médecine, Paris, 1866. English translation by Edward Reynolds Hun (1842-1880) as Secondary degenerations of the spinal cord. Utica, 1869.
  • Les auto-intoxications. 1866.
  • Étude sur quelques points de la pathogénie des hémorrhagies cérébrales. Doctoral thesis, 1866.
  • Tuberculose et phthisie pulmonaire.
    Gazette hebdomadaire de médecine et de chirurgie, Paris, 1868.
  • De la pathogénie des hémorrhagies. 1869.
    English translation by Thomas John Maclagan (1838-1903), London, 1872.
  • Utilité et objet de l’historie de la médecine. Leçon d’ouverture.
    Gazette médicale, 1876. (Lyon or Paris?)
  • Étiologie de la fièvre typhoïde, rapport présenté au Congrès méd. internat. de Génève. 1877.
  • Maladies par ralentissement de la nutrition; cours de pathologie générale professé à la Faculté de médecine de Paris pendant l’année 1879-80, rec. et publ. par le Dr. Frémy. 1882.
  • L’auto-intoxication dans les maladies.
  • Thérapeutique des maladies infectieuses.
  • Questions relatives à la reforme des études médicales. Paris, 1907.

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