Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1267.1

FRANçOIS JOSEPH VICTOR BROUSSAIS (1772-1838) Dr. Broussais’s Vorlesungen uber die gastrischen Entzundungen / Nach der zweyten verbesserten Originalausgabe aus dem Franzosischen ubersetzt und mit einer Vorrede begleitet von Joh. Christ. Fleck. Verlag der Hof- Buch- und Kunsthandlung 1829 2nd German edition. xxx, 239 p. 22 cm.

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In 1814 Broussais became professor of medicine at the Val de Grace and gave a course in practical medicine that attracted large, enthusiastic classes. Broussais taught a doctrine inspired by old theories of deep pathological states that did not admit individual illnesses. Everything came under the heading of gastroenteritis, and consequently was treated by repeated bleedings and debilitating diets. These had disastrous effects on patients who were hemorrhaging or who suffered from cancer, malaria, or syphilis. Broussais’ success lasted until his physiological doctrine was rejected by his students, which was further proved wrong by the 1832 outbreak of cholera which Broussais treated – with catastrophic results – as acute gastroenteritis.

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