Georges Hayem

Georges Hayem ( born November 25, 1841 in Paris, † August 28, 1933 ) was a French internist and hematologist.

Biography

Hayem studied medicine in Paris, where in 1868 he was doing a PhD Dr. med. In 1872 he was appointed Professeur agrégé ( associate professor ) and appointed Doctor of hôpitaux ( admission to all hospitals ). From 1878 to 1911 he taught and conducted research at the Hôpital Tenon. In 1879 he was appointed Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica. In the Académie de Médecine, he was elected in 1886. In 1893 he became a full Professor of Clinical Medicine. 1911 Hayem became Professor Emeritus, he remained until 1917 physician at the Hôpital St. Antoine. In 1917 he was elected Vice President of the Académie de Médicine and appointed Commander of the Legion of Honour.

Work

Hayem is considered the founder of the French hematology. He developed the so-called Hayemsche solution that is used to this day for counting the red blood cells ( erythrocytes). He described first the chronic interstitial hepatitis and the acquired hemolytic icterus (jaundice). The Hemolytic anemia was formerly the name Hayem - Widal syndrome. Second was named after the French bacteriologist Georges- Fernand Widal.

Publications

• Traitment you cholera. , G. Masson, Paris, 1885
• You sang et ses altérations anatomiques. , G. Masson, Paris, 1889
• Lecons cliniques sur les maladies du sang. , G. Masson, Paris, 1900