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Henri Louis Roger

Born  1809
Died  1891

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French internist, born January 6, 1809, Paris; died November 15, 1891, Paris.

Biography of Henri Louis Roger

Henri Louis Roger studied in Paris where he became an intern in 1834 and received his doctorate in 1839. In his student days, British medical students were generally much better off than the French and were seen as an easy source of revenue for French students who offered private courses and anatomical tuition to their English counterparts. These French "teachers" were sometimes accused of exploiting the British pupils. In 1834, Henri Roger provoked the anger of British students by changing the pricing structure of his anatomical demonstrations. One English student noted that Roger was no better than the majority of Frenchmen, whose "sole business and delight seemed to consist in taking or endeavouring to take in the raw "Englishers".

The topic of Roger's doctoral dissertation was to remain his great interest all through his life, De l'auscultation et se valeur semiologique. In 1847 he became agrégé at the medical faculty of Paris. In 1860 he commenced work in the Hôpital Sainte-Eugénie, where he concentrated his efforts on the post-mortem findings in children. He worked there until 1875, when he became an honorary physician – Médecin honoraire – at the same hospital. Roger He was elected member of the Académie de Médecine in 1862, and was also very active in the medical association, being its chairman from 1876 until his death at the age of 83.

Roger made important contributions to paediatrics and was the first to provide systematic clinical instruction in this field.

It was said of him that he always spoke with charming humour and was an elegant writer.

Bibliography

  • De l’auscultation et de sa valeur séméiologique.
    Doctoral thesis, Paris, 1839.
  • Traité pratique d’auscultation; ou, Exposé methodique des diverses applications de ce mode d'examen à l'état physiologique et morbide de l'économie; suivi d'un précis de percussion.
    By Jean Baptiste Barth (1806-1877) and Henri Louis Roger.
    Paris, Béchet et Labé, 1841. 515 pages.
  • A Practical Treatise on Auscultation. By M. Barth and Henry Roger.
    Translated with Notes, by Patrick S. Newbigging (1813-1863).
    Translation of the 1841 first edition of Traité d'auscultation.
    Edinburgh: Maclachlan, Stewart, & Co. / London: Whittaker & Co., 1842.
    1st Edition in English, 1st printing. XXII + 398 pages.
  • Rapport au ministère de l’instruction publique sur l’organisation de la médecine en Allemagne. Moniteur, Paris, 1844.
  • Traité pratique d'auscultation; ou, exposé méthodique des diverses applications de ce mode d'examen à l'état physiologique et morbide de l'économie.
    Par M. Barth et M. Henry Roger.
    Paris: Labé, Éditeur, Libraire de la Faculté de Médecine, 1844.
    2nd Revised & enlarged Edition. XIV + 686 pages
  • A manual of auscultation and percussion.
    By Jean Baptiste Barth and Henri Louis Roger.
    American edition by Francis Gurney Smith (1818-1878).
    Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1845.
  • A manual of auscultation and percussion.
    By Jean Baptiste Barth, Francis Gurney Smith, and Henri Louis Roger.
    Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849.
  • Traité pratique d’auscultation, suivi d'un précis de percussion.
    By Jean Baptiste Barth and Henri Louis Roger. Paris : Labé, 1850. 706 pages.
  • Traité pratique d’auscultation; ou, exposé méthodique des diverses applications de ce mode d'examen à l'état physiologique et morbide de l'économie.
    Par M. Barth et M. Henry Roger.
    Paris: Labé, Éditeur, Libraire de la Faculté de Médecine, 1854. 5th Revised & enlarged Edition. XVIII + 719 pages.
  • Traité pratique d’auscultation.
    Jean Baptiste Barth and Henri Louis Roger. 1860. 736 pages.
  • A manual of auscultation and percussion : as applied to the diagnosis of disease of the heart and lungs, and to pregnancy.
    By Baptiste Philippe Barth and Henri Louis Roger.
    Translated from the French by J. H. Pottenger. St. Louis : Studley, 1860.
  • Séméiotique des maladies de l'enfance. Leçons professées an 1863. 1864.
  • Traité pratique d'auscultation, suivi d'un précis de percussion.
    Jean Baptiste Barth and Henri Louis Roger. 6th edition. Paris : Asselin, 1865.
  • A manual of auscultation and percussion.
    By Jean Baptiste Barth and Henri Louis Roger.
    Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1866.
  • Recherches cliniques sur la chorée, le rhumatisme et les maladies du coeur chez les enfants. 2 parts, 1867 and 1868.
  • Traité pratique d'auscultation, suivi d'un précis de percussion.
    Jean Baptiste Barth and Henri Louis Roger. Paris : Asselin et Houzeau, 1870.
  • Recherches anatomo-pathologiques sur la paralysie spinale de l’enfance (paralysie infantile). With François Damaschino (1840-1890). 1872.
  • Recherches cliniques sur les maladies de l'enfance. 2 volumes, 1872 and 1883.
  • Traité pratique d'auscultation, suivi d'un précis de percussion.
    Jean Baptiste Barth and Henri Louis Roger. Paris, P. Asselin Editeur, 1874.
  • De la ponction du péricarde. 1875.
  • Recherches cliniques sur le communication congénitale des deux coeurs par inocclusion du septum intrerventriculiare.
    Bulletin de l’Académie de médecine, Paris, 1879, série 2,8: 1074-1094, 1189-1191.
    German translation by von Loeffler in: Medicinisch–chirurgisches Central–Blatt, Wien, 1881; 16: pp 1 and 26.
  • Traité pratique d'auscultation, suivi d'un précis de percussion.
    Jean Baptiste Barth and Henri Louis Roger. Paris : Asselin, 1880. 752 pages.
  • Traité pratique d'auscultation suivi d'un précis de percussion.
    Jean Baptiste Barth and Henri Louis Roger.
    Paris : Asselin et Houzeau, 1887. XVI + 872 pages.
  • Traité pratique d'auscultation suivi d'un précis de percussion.
    Jean Baptiste Barth and Henri Louis Roger. Paris : Asselin et Houzeau, 1893. Biographical etc:
  • 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.
  • H. Bernard:
    [Eulogy of Henri Roger (1860-1946)] French.
    Bulletin de l'Académie nationale de médecine, Paris, December 6, 1966, 150 (32): 651-656.
  • Henri-Louis Roger (1809-1891): Roger's Disease.
    JAMA, July 1970, 213 (3): 456-457. No Authors listed.
  • S. P. Allwork:
    Maladie du Roger 1879: a new translation for the centenary.
    American Heart Journal, St. Louis, September 1979, 98 (3): 307-311.
  • Barry G. Firkin and Judith A. Whitworth:
    Dictionary of Medical Eponyms.
    The Parthenon Publishing Group. 1989. New edition in 2002.
  • J. Oehme:
    <[Henri-Louis Roger (1809-1891)] [Article in German]
    Kinderkrankenschwester, March 1993, 12 (3): 88.
  • Florent Palluault:
    Medical Students in England and France 1815-1858. A Comparative Study.
    Thesis for the degree of Doctor in Philosophy, University of Oxford. Trinity, 2003.

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