Jean-Nicolas Marjolin

Jean -Nicolas Marjolin (December 6, 1780 in Ray -sur- Saône Haute -Saône; † March 4, 1850 in ) was a French surgeon and pathologist.

Life and work

Marjolin first began studying law. After that, he served for a short time in the French army. Through a friend of the family, he began to be interested in medicine. He made it possible for him to study at the COMMERCY Hospital. With a recommendation letter from his mother, he went to the University of Paris to Alexis Boyer. In an examination of 1803, he finished third best place. Was seventh François Magendie. Then Marjolin worked in Guillaume Dupuytren Société Anatomique. 1805 Marjolin assistant in anatomy and 1806 prosector. In 1808 he received his doctorate of medicine. In a time were in the private medical schools popular, he opened his own school of medicine in 1810. Marjolin was with his medical school very successfully. In 1812 he had 227 students of anatomy and 130 for surgery. In 1816, he became the second surgeon at the Hôtel- Dieu de Paris, whose head was Dupuytren. With Dupuytren he was at loggerheads after an incident of 1812. On November 13, 1818 Marjolin was appointed Professor of Pathology, which he occupied until his death in 1850. In 1820, Marjolin member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.

Marjolins son was the anatomist René Marjolin ( 1812-1895 ).

After Marjolin the Marjolin ulcer is a scar resulting from cancer (scar cancer) named. Marjolin described in 1828 in the first edition of the Dictionnaire de Medecine on four case studies, the first time the " warty ulcer ", but not the malignant transformation of the ulcer to carcinoma and not the origin of scar tissue. The transformation was first described by the British surgeon Caesar Hawkins ( 1798-1884 ). Other sources mention the Irish surgeon Robert William Smith (1807-1873), who described 1850 as first the relationship between scar tissue, ulcers and metastasis. The term Marjolin ulcer coined in 1903, the U.S. doctor John Chalmers Da Costa ( 1863-1933 ), Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.

Jean-Nicolas Marjolin

Life and work

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