Pierre-Constant Budin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French obstetrician
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Place of Birth: Énencourt-le-Sec, Hauts-de-France, France
About Pierre-Constant Budin
- Pierre-Constant Budin (French pronunciation: ?[pj?? k?~st?~ byd?~]; 9 November 1846 – 22 January 1907) was a French obstetrician who was a native of Enencourt-le-Sec, a village in northern France. In 1876 he earned his medical degree in Paris, and in 1882 became chief obstetrician at the Hôpital de la Charité.
- In 1895 he succeeded Étienne Stéphane Tarnier (1828-1897) as chair of obstetrics at the Hôpital Maternité.
- Budin was a member of the Académie de Médecine, and an officer of the Légion d'honneur. Pierre Budin was a founder of modern perinatal medicine, and made many contributions in efforts to reduce infant mortality.
- He stressed the importance of proper nutrition and prevention of infectious disease in newborns, as well as education of new mothers on these subjects.
- Due to the problem of gastroenteritis in infants caused by contaminated cow's milk, Budin was a major proponent of breastfeeding, and believed in a substitution of sterilized milk if natural nutrition failed.
- He also popularized a technique known as gavage for feeding premature infants who were too weak to receive nourishment by conventional methods. He was the author of Le nourrisson: alimentation et hygiène - enfants débiles, enfants nés à terme (1900), a book that was later translated into English as "The Nursling.
- The feeding and hygiene of premature and full-term infants" (1907).
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