Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud

French physician

Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1796

Place of Birth: Garat, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Date of Death: 29-Oct-1881

Profession: physician, politician, cardiologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud

  • Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud (16 September 1796 – 29 October 1881) was a French physician born in Bragette, now part of Garat, Charente.
  • Bouillaud was an early advocate of the localization of cerebral functions (especially of speech). He received his medical doctorate in 1823 and later was a professor at the CharitĂ© in Paris.
  • Puerto Rican independence leader, surgeon and LĂ©gion d'honneur laureate, RamĂłn Emeterio Betances, was one of his prominent students.
  • In 1862 Bouillaud was elected president of the AcadĂ©mie de MĂ©decine, and in 1868 he became a member of the AcadĂ©mie des sciences. Bouillaud performed research of many medical diseases and conditions, including cancer, cholera, heart disease and encephalitis, to name a few.
  • He is remembered for providing a correlation between rheumatism and heart disease, and French medical dictionaries still refer to acute rheumatoid endocarditis as "Bouillaud's disease".
  • He described this condition in the treatise "TraitĂ© clinique des maladies du coeur". Bouillaud was an early advocate of the drug digitalis for treatment of heart ailments.
  • He referred to digitalis as the "opium of the heart".
  • Along with cardiologist Pierre Potain (1825–1901), he performed studies of "heart sounds" involving the differentiation between normal and abnormal heart rhythms.
  • Bouilland was an ardent follower of François-Joseph-Victor Broussais (1772–1838) in regard to the dubious practice of bloodletting. In 1825 Bouillaud published "TraitĂ© clinique et physiologique de l'encĂ©phalite, ou inflammation du cerveau" in which he includes one of the earliest studies on localization of brain functions.
  • He maintained that loss of articulate speech was associated with lesions of the anterior lobe.

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