Armand Trousseau

Armand Trousseau ( born October 14, 1801 in Tours, † June 27, 1867 in Paris) was a French internist.

Trousseau began his medical training in his native city and later used it in Paris, where he in 1825 became a Doctor of Medicine. In 1839 he became professor at the Paris Faculty of Medicine. He led one of the first in France intubation and tracheotomy by what he wrote in 1851 a monograph. Trousseau coined in 1864 the term aphasia.

According to him, the Trousseau sign is named.

Works

  • Mémoire sur un cas de tracheotomy pratiquée dans la période extrème de croup. In: Journal of connaissances médico- chirurgicales, 1833, 1: 5, 41
  • Along with Hermann Pidoux (1808-1882): Traité de matière médicale de thérapeutique et. 2 volumes, Paris, Béchet jeune, 1836-1839
  • You Tubage de la glotte et de la tracheotomy. Paris, 1851.
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