Joseph Beau
Joseph Honoré Simon Beau (1806 – 1865) was a French physician.
Remembered for his investigations of the physiology of the heart and the lungs. He made one of the first descriptions of cardiac insufficiency and asystole (Beau’s syndrome) 1846.
Famed for his investigations of the physiology of the heart and the lungs, published in the Archives générales de médecine from 1834 to 1845, and collected in his Traité expérimental et clinique d’auscultation appliqué à l’étude des maladies du poumon et du coeur published in 1856
Biography
- Born on May 8, 1806 in Collonges (Ain)
- 1836 – MD thesis, Paris. The thesis entitled – “De l’emploi des évacuans dans la maladie connue sous les noms gastroentérite, dothinthérite etc“
- 1839 – physician at the Bureau central, later at the Hospital Cochin and eventually at the Charité
- 1844 – Professor Agrégé at the medical faculty
- 1844-1852 Participated in competitive examinations for medical chairs.
- Died on August 11, 1865, in Paris
Medical Eponyms
Syndrome de Beau (1836)
Beau’s lines (1846)
Deep horizontal, transverse grooves or ridges that run from side to side on the fingernail or the toenail, usually a sign of systemic disease or local trauma.
Beau’s lines can be induced by drugs, such as the retinoids, and cancer chemotherapeutic agents as well as radiotherapy
Major Publications
- Beau JHS. Recherches d’anatomie pathologique sur une forme particulière de dilatation et d’hypertrophie du coeur. Archives générales de médecine. 1836; II(10): 425-447 [Syndrome de Beau]
- Beau JHS. Note sur certains caractères de séméiologie rétrospective présentés par les ongles, Archives générales de médecine. 1846; 9: 447-458 [Beau’s lines]
- Beau JHS. Traité expérimental et clinique d’auscultation appliquée à l’étude des maladies du poumon et du coeur. 1856
- Beau JHS. Traité de la dyspepsie. 1866
References
Biography
- Joseph Honoré Simon Beau Exposé des titres. 1864
- Parrot JL. Notice biographique sur le Dr Beau. Archives générales de médecine 1865; 2: 589-597
- Bibliography. Joseph Honoré Simon Beau. WorldCat Identities
Eponymous terms
- Colvett KL, Patel D, Smith JK. Multiple Beau’s lines in a patient with fever of unknown origin. South Med J. 1993; 86(12): 1424‐1426.
- Ben-Dayan D, Mittelman M, Floru S, Djaldetti M. Transverse nail ridgings (Beau’s lines) induced by chemotherapy. Acta Haematol. 1994;91(2):89‐90.
- Bodman MA. Beau’s lines. In: Nail dystrophies. Clin Podiatr Med Surg. 2004; 21(4): 669-671
- Schwartz H. Clinical observation: Beau’s lines on fingernails after deep saturation dives. Undersea Hyperb Med. 2006; 33(1): 5‐10.
- Park J, Li K. Images in clinical medicine. Multiple Beau’s lines. N Engl J Med. 2010;362(20):e63.
- Alobaida S, Lam JM. Beau lines associated with COVID-19. CMAJ. 2020 Sep 8;192(36):E1040.
Graduated from Southampton Medical School in 2017 with BMBS. Working in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Emergency Department in Perth, Australia.