Charles Lasègue

Ernest -Charles Lasègue ( born September 5, 1816 in Paris, † 20 March 1883, Paris) was a French internist.

Lasègue studied in Paris and was there roommate of Claude Bernard. Lasègue had initially started with the study of philosophy. When he heard a lecture by Armand Trousseau (1801-1867), he turned to clinical medicine and was later Trousseau 's favorite pupil and close associate. He enrolled in 1839 in the Faculty of Medicine and received his PhD degree in 1847 in Paris. On behalf of the French government, he went in 1848 to southern Russia to investigate the rampant cholera epidemic there. Lasègue was a physician at the Salpêtrière hospital, Pitié and Necker. He lectured on diseases of the brain and the nerves, and in 1869 he became professor of clinical medicine at the Hospital Necker. This position he retained until his death. Around the same time with the Englishman William Gull (1868 ) described Lasègue first time in 1873 today known as anorexia nervosa eating disorder as " Anorexia hysterica ". Both emphasized the psycho-genesis of the disease.

Because after Lasègues view the disease of the cell was only part of the pathology, he criticized the cellular pathology of Virchow.

After Lasègue the Lasègue characters is named in medicine. Also, the term is still used in psychiatry "folie à deux " for an induced psychosis comes from him.

Bibliography

• De Stahl et sa doctrine médicale. PhD thesis, Paris, 1847.
• De la marcher de la Cholera dans la Russia méridionale. Archives générales de médecine, 1848.
• Sur la paralysie générale et progressive. Habilitation thesis, 1853.
• Études historiques sur l' aliénation mental. Annales médico- psychologiques, 1844, 1845.
• You traitement moral. Annales médico- psychologiques, 1846-1847.
• Pierre Astruc: Charles Lasegue ( 1816-1883 ). Les biographies medicales. Les Maîtres du passé. Paris, J.-B. Baillière et fils. Volume 2, 1934.