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Joseph Beau

Joseph Honoré Simon Beau (1806 - 1865)

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


References

Biography

Eponymous terms


Dr Kathryn Scott LITFL Author

Graduated from Southampton Medical School in 2017 with BMBS. Working in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Emergency Department in Perth, Australia.

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