Armand Trousseau
Armand Trousseau , born the October 14th 1801 with Turns and deceased the June 27th 1867 with Paris, was a French doctor and clinician.
It begins its studies in its birthplace from Turns under the supervision of Pierre Fidèle Bretonneau, with which it learns the methods of clinical observation to the general hospital. He becomes doctor of medicine in 1825, then aggregate of the medical college of the University of Paris in 1827.
The following year, the government charges it with evaluating the epidemic devastations in the center of France. Trousseau is dispatched with Gibraltar, by the committee of research on the Yellow fever, to go to examine patients.
In 1830, he becomes doctor of the hospitals and, in 1832, he obtains a position in the public health with the central Bureau. He continues his formation with Joseph Récamier with the Hôtel-Dieu as doctor.
In 1837, the medical Académie offers to him an honorary price for its work in this hospital. Two years later, Armand Trousseau is named with the head of the pulpit in Thérapie and Pharmacologie by the medical college of the Université of Paris, and the same year it is transferred to the Hôpital Saint-Anthony.
In 1850, he becomes member of the Academy of medicine. He is the writer of the Journal of knowledge médicochirurgicales . He will be one of the first to apply the Trachéotomie. Its clinical observations of the Hospital will be published several times, the first edition going back to 1861-62. Its name will be given to the Contracture hand observed in particular at the time of crisis of Spasmophilie which it will describe in 1861 (Signe of Trousseau).
A famous hospital for children bears his name to Paris, the Hôpital Armand-Trousseau.
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