Raoul Bensaude, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Raoul Bensaude

French physician

Date of Birth: 26-Jan-1866

Place of Birth: Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal

Date of Death: 25-Oct-1938

Profession: scientist, physician, lecturer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Raoul Bensaude

  • Raoul Bensaude (26 January 1866 – 25 October 1938) was a French physician born in the Azores.
  • He became a famous gastroenterologist that pioneered proctology in France.
  • With Pierre-Emile Launois (1856-1914), he provided a detailed description of multiple symmetrical lipomatosis, also referred to as "Launois-Bensaude syndrome".Raoul Bensaude went to school in Germany near Hannover and moved to Paris to study medicine.
  • His doctoral thesis under supervision of Emile Charles Achard (1860-1944) was noticed as the first characterization of the bacillus, Salmonella paratyphi B causing paratyphoid fever.
  • Bensaude then moved to Hôpital Saint-Antoine in Paris, where he was patronized by Georges Hayem (1841-1933) and finished his career as chef de service. Bensaude made multiple contributions in the field of gastroenterology.
  • Thanks to Lucius Littauer, an American philanthropist, he founded at Hôpital Saint-Antoine the first service of proctology in France.
  • He is credited for popularizing sclerotherapy for treatment of hemorrhoids, and developed a model of rectoscope named after him.
  • His treatise Rectoscopie: Sigmoïdoscopie.
  • Traité d'endoscopie recto-colique had a worldwide impact.

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