Trousseau

Trousseau Armand (Armand Trousseau, 1801-1867), famous French clinician, student of Broussais; initially dedicated himself to the study of infectious diseases, especially yellow fever in Gibraltar. In 1837 he received the grand prize of the Medical Academy for his work on throat tuberculosis, chronic laryngitis, and diseases of the voice. In 1839 he began teaching therapy and pharmacology at the Paris medical faculty, from 1850 - professor of clinical internal diseases, from 1856 - member of the Medical Academy. Of his works, the most famous are his famous lectures "Clinique medicale de l'Hotel-Dieu" (v. I-II, Paris, 1st ed., 1861), which went through many editions and were translated into all languages, including Russian. Brilliant are his works on croup, tracheotomy and intubation, description of the picture of gastric vertigo (vertigo a stomacho laeso) and finally the monograph on typhoid fever. The presentation of the clinical picture, in the vividness of its depiction, at times reaches the liveliness of a novel. Many of the newest scientific views were geniusously anticipated by T. and outlined by him in his works, including the doctrine of bacteria, of vegetative neuroses, and of parenchymatous jaundices.