See also: Aran

François-Amilcar Aran was a French doctor, born the July 12th 1817, deceased the February 22nd 1861.

Biographical summary

Born with Bordeaux, it begins its medical studies in this city and finishes them with Paris. with a thesis devoted to cardiac palpitations.

It follows then the traditional die of a teaching hospital career: he is doctor of the hospitals to the Hôpital Saint-Anthony and qualified schoolteacher with a work of aggregation devoted to sudden death. He takes an active part in the drafting of several newspapers among which the general Archives of medicine and the medical Union of which he will be the principal contributor. He wrote also many didactic or original articles for the Bulletin of therapeutic . He was finally the translator in French of an important treaty of James Henry Bennett devoted to the inflammatory diseases of the Utérus and of that of Joseph Škoda (1805-1881) on the percussion and the Auscultation. Its courses with the Hospital of Paris, replacing those of Leon Rostan (1790-1866) were worth a solid reputation of teacher to him.

F.A. Aran is deceased at 44 years of the complications of a acute Rheumatoid arthritis, an affection of which it was reached for a long time and to which ironically, it had also devoted an article.

Eponymy

The name of Aran remained attached in medicine to the designation of 3 clinical entities:

• Laws of Aran : they describe the mechanisms which the features of fractures of the skull obey.
• Amyotrophie d' Aran- Duchenne : atrophies muscular progressive by attack of the motoneurones of marrow épnière.
• Syndrome of Aran- Duchenne : atrophies muscular in the territory of the driving roots C8 and D1. When only the intrinsic musculature of the hand is concerned, one speaks with “hand of Aran-Duchenne”.

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