Paul Georges Dieulafoy

Paul Georges Dieulafoy ( born November 18, 1839 in Toulouse, † August 16, 1911 in Paris) was a French surgeon and pathologist.

Life and work

Paul Georges Dieulafoy studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he became a PhD in 1869 with a thesis on typhoid fever ( De la mort dans subite because fièvre typhoid ). In the same year, he developed an apparatus for aspiration of exudates ( " Dieulafoy's apparatus "), which predominantly found application in the removal of pleural effusions in lung. Marcel Proust describes this apparatus in the third volume of his novel "In Search of Lost Time " (1920 /21); Proust processed in this novel and the person of Dieulafoy itself

Dieulafoy in 1886 was appointed Professor of Pathology at the Sorbonne and worked, among other things, at the Paris Hôtel- Dieu. According to him, a special form of gastric ulcer is named, called Dieulafoy ulcer, as well as the symptoms of an acute abdomen at haemorrhagic pancreatitis ( pancreas Dieulafoy - crisis). He described the triad of hyperesthesia (hypersensitivity ) of the skin, guarding and muscular contraction at the McBurney point in acute appendicitis ( Dieulafoy 's triad ).

Works (selection)

• De l' aspiration pneumatique sous- coutanée. Méthode de de traitement et diagnostic, Paris 1870 (English translation London 1870)
• You diagnostic et du traitement et hydratiques kystes of the abscess du foie par aspiration, Paris 1872
• Traité de l' aspiration of most liquid morbid, Paris London 1873
• Manuel de internal pathology, last 11th edition, Paris 1898
• Clinique de l' hôtel -Dieu médical de Paris, Paris 4 volumes ( Masson et Cie ) 1896-1899
• Exulceratio simplex: Leçons 1-3. In: G. Dieulafoy (ed.): Clinique Medicale de l'Hotel Dieu de Paris. Paris 1898, pp. 1-38

Swell

• Julius Leopold Pagel (ed.): Biographical Dictionary outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century. Berlin Vienna 1901, p 394