Eugène Bouchut (May 18, 1818 - 1891) was a French physician. Events 1152 - Henry II of England marries Eleanor of Aquitaine. Year 1818 ( MDCCCXVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In 1843 he obtained his medical doctorate from Paris, and later became chef de clinique at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. The Hôtel-Dieu is regarded as the oldest hospital in the city of Paris, France. In 1852 he became a physician at the Hôpital Bon Secours, and later a physician at the Hôpital Sainte-Eugenie and Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades. He taught classes at Ecole Pratique and Sainte-Eugenie, and in 1857 and 1859 substituted for Andre Duméril (1774-1860) at the Faculté de médecine. André Marie Constant Duméril (1774 - 1860 was a French Zoologist.
Bouchut made contributions in several medical fields. In the 1850s he introduced a set of tubes (Bouchut's tubes) for intubation of the larynx, as an alternative to tracheotomy in cases of diphtheria. In Medicine, intubation refers to the placement of a tube into an external or internal orifice of the body The larynx (plural larynges) colloquially known as the voicebox, is an organ in the Neck of Mammals involved in protection of the Tracheotomy and tracheostomy are Surgical procedures on the neck to open a direct airway through an incision in the trachea (the windpipe Diphtheria ( Greek διφθερα ( diphthera)—“pair of leather scrolls" is an upper respiratory tract illness characterized by sore He was also a practitioner of "cerebroscopy", a technique used for examining the interior of the eye via ophthalmoscope for diagnosis of brain disorders. The ophthalmoscope (or funduscope) is an instrument used to examine the Eye.
Bouchut authored several works on pediatrics, and an important book on acute and chronic neurasthenia titled De l'État nerveux aigu et chronique, ou nervosisme. Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics) is the branch of Medicine that deals with the medical care of Infants Children and Adolescents Neurasthenia is a psycho-pathological term first used by George Miller Beard in 1869 to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, Anxiety, Headache He also published Traité des signes de la mort et des moyens de prévenir les enterrements prématurés, a treatise concerning the prevention of premature burials, which won an award from the Académie des sciences in 1846. The French Academy of Sciences ( French: Académie des sciences) is a Learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the
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- This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia.
- Death, the Last Taboo
- Tracheotomy versus Intubation
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