Charles-Joseph Bouchard

Charles-Joseph Bouchard (1837-1915)

Charles-Joseph Bouchard (September 6, 1837 – 1915) was a French pathologist born in Montier-en-Der, a commune the department of Haute-Marne. He studied medicine in Lyon and Paris, where he obtained his doctorate in 1866. In 1874 he became a physician at Bicêtre Hospital, and in 1879 was appointed chair of general pathology. In 1886 he became a member of the Academie de Médecine.

Eponyms

Bouchard is remembered for his work with infectious and nutritional diseases. He was a student of Jean Charcot, and with Charcot described a condition that would later be known as Charcot-Bouchard aneurysm. This is a small aneurysm on cerebral perforated vessels that may cause intracranial hemorrhages. Bouchard wrote about this aneurysm in his doctorate thesis Étude sur quelques points de la pathogénie des hémorrhagies cérébrales.

His name is also lent to the eponymous Bouchard's nodes, which are bony outgrowths of the proximal interphalangeal joints, and a sign of osteoarthritis.

Works

Bouchard was the author of Traité de Pathologie Générale, a compendium of medical pathology, and also "Lectures on Auto-Intoxication in Disease, or Self-Poisoning of the Individual". Among his other noted written works are the following:

• Études expérimentales sur l'identité de l'herpès circiné et de l'herpès tonsurant, 1860
• Des dégenerations secondaires de la moëlle épinière, 1866
• Étude sur quelques points de la pathogénie des hémorrhagies cérébrales, 1866
• Les auto-intoxications, 1866
• De la pathogénie des hémorrhagies, 1869
• Questions relatives à la reforme des études médicales, 1907

External links

• [1] The clinician, germs and infectious diseases: the example of Charles Bouchard in Paris by Alain Contrepois
• Charles-Joseph Bouchard @ Who Named It

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Name	Bouchard, Charles-Joseph
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Date of birth	September 6, 1837
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Date of death	1915
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