Eugène Bouchut

Eugène Bouchut (May 18, 1818 - 1891) was a French physician. In 1843 he obtained his medical doctorate from Paris, and later became "chef de clinique" at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. In 1852 he became a physician at the Hôpital Bon Secours, and later a physician at the Hôpital Sainte-Eugenie and Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades. He taught classes at Ecole Pratique and Sainte-Eugenie, and in 1857 and 1859 substituted for Andre Duméril (1774-1860) at the Faculté de médecine.

Bouchut made contributions in several medical fields. In the 1850s he introduced a set of tubes (Bouchut's tubes) for intubation of the larynx, as an alternative to tracheotomy in cases of diphtheria. He was also a practitioner of "cerebroscopy", a technique used for examining the interior of the eye via ophthalmoscope for diagnosis of brain disorders.

Bouchut authored several works on pediatrics, and an important book on acute and chronic neurasthenia titled "De l'État nerveux aigu et chronique, ou nervosisme". He also published "Traité des signes de la mort et des moyens de prévenir les enterrements prématurés", a treatise concerning the prevention of premature burials, which won an award from the Académie des sciences in 1846.

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* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia."
* [http://www.deathonline.net/what_is/stethoscopes.cfm Death, the Last Taboo]
* [http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:8pYkxCg0TskJ:eprints.ucl.ac.uk/archive/00003441/01/3441.pdf+%22Eug%C3%A8ne+Bouchut%22+1818&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us Tracheotomy versus Intubation]