Saint-Sulpice-the-Fields

Geography

the intersection of the 46e parallel northern and the 2nd Méridien in the east of Greenwich is on the territory of the commune (see also the Degree Junction Project ).

History

Administration

Current General adviser: Daniel Delprato (PS) (2004 - 2010)
Current Appointed: Jean Auclair (UMP) (2002 - 2007)

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Doctor Eugene Jamot * - Born on November 14th, 1879 with Borie, hamlet of the commune of Saint-Sulpice-the-Fields, it made studies of medicine in Montpellier. In 1908 it settled in Sardent. Two years it renonça to later exert the medicine of countryside to pass the entrance examination to the School of application of the department of health of the colonial troops in Marseilles, known as " School of Pharo". Left into 1911 this high-place of training in tropical medicine, it made a first stay in Black Africa before entering to the Pasteur Institute of Paris where it studied until 1914 while specializing in the parasitoses. At the end of its training course it was named sub-manager of the Institute Pasteur de Brazzaville.

From 1916 to 1931 it was devoted to the fight against the human trypanosomiasis. More known under the name of " disease of the sommeil" , this parasitic disease is due to a protozoon transmitted of the animal to the man by the puncture of a fly (known as fly " tsé-tsé"). Always mortal in the absence of treatment, this disease owes her name with the fact that to the pre-final phase the patients present a permanent somnolence.

The African trypanosomiasis evolved/moved during the centuries by large epidemic waves. Uganda and the Basin of Congo were devastated of 1896 to 1906. From 1920 a second epidemic started to decimate central Africa and of the west. It is this second thorough which was effectively fought in Cameroun and Burkina-Fasso by Colonel Jamot and his teams. This success was worth a considerable glory to him. It was covered with honors and was proposed for the Nobel Prize.

But, in November 1931, during one of his voyages between France and Cameroun, Colonel Jamot was unloaded of force in Dakar and put at the close arrest. The Ministry for the Overseas territories held it for personally responsible for serious therapeutic accidents which have occurred in the sector of Bafia, where 700 people had become blind following a treatment applied by one of its assistants.

At that time, only some drugs were effective. They were derived from arsenic, inducing notable toxic effects. In 1928 one of these products (tryparsamide) had been managed by a young doctor - of his own initiative and without referring to Colonel Jamot about it - with triple amounts of those which were recommended. Tryparsamide started optical neurites at nearly a thousand of patients, who became blind. Jamot could not put forward its innocence, and it paid dearly for the acts of its subordinate. It had to give up taking again its campaigns in Cameroun, and spent the following years to Ouagadougou in an environment of permanent suspicion.

Deeply discouraged, it took advantage of its rights to the retirement and, at the beginning of 1936, it was withdrawn in Sardent which it had left 25 years before. It took again there with valiancy its last activity of country doctor. But the public rumor had preceded it and continued. Whatever was its immense glory passed, it had become " that which made blind of the thousands of africains". In spite of its devotion, its activity did not enable him to put an end to important financial problems. And it is a man broken morally and physically who died in Sardent on April 24th, 1937 of an cerebral vascular accident.

Sources: Thesis of Doctor Marcel BEBEY EYIDI - the winner of the Disease of the Sleep - Doctor Eugene Jamot (1879-1937). Preface of Doctor Louis AUJOULAT, Secretary of State in France of Overseas - 1950 .

the Painter Jules Rouffet (1862 - 1931) is one of the large Masters of military painting. It also painted landscapes of Hollow; it belongs to the school of Crozant

See too

Common of Hollow the

External bonds

Saint-Sulpice-the-Fields on the site of the national geographical Institute
Saint-Sulpice-the-Fields on the site of INSEE
Saint-Sulpice-the-Fields on the site of Quid
Localization of Saint-Sulpice-the-Fields on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plan on Saint-Sulpice-the-Fields on Mapquest
the point 46N2E on Dismantles Junction Project

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