Prosper Ménière

Prosper Meniere ( born June 18, 1799 in Angers, † February 7, 1862 in Paris) was a French physician. According to him, the Meniere's disease is named.

Life

After studying in Angers, he worked at Hôtel- Dieu Hospital in Paris, where in 1828 he earned a doctorate. He was involved in the fight against the cholera epidemic of 1835 and was accepted for services rendered in the Legion of Honor. In 1838 he became director of the Deaf and Dumb Institute in Paris. He died in 1862 of pneumonia.

In addition to his extensive professional career, he remained open to the art and culture of his time, he was a friend of Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac.

In 1861 he described a syndrome of anfallsartigem dizziness associated with progressive hearing loss and tinnitus ( Meniere's disease ). He defined these complaints as a problem of the inner ear (until then they were considered a form of epilepsy) and distinguished it from the vertigo of central origin.

Jean -Martin Charcot made ​​in 1874 this triad known as Maladie de Meniere ( Meniere's disease).

Spelling of the name

Prosper Ménière himself wrote only with a grave accent on the second "e", which is confirmed by several handwritten letters with his signature. In the literature, there are often other spellings ( Ménière, Menier ), some of which stem from the writing on the grave chapel of Ménière family on the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.