Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1440

PIERRE CHARLES ALEXANDRE LOUIS (1787-1872) Recherches anatomiques, pathologiques et thérapeutiques sur la maladie connue sous les noms de gastro-entérite, fièvre putride, adynamique, ataxique, typhoïide etc., etc., comparée avec les maladies aigues les plus ordinaires. J.-B. Baillière 1829 Vol. I: xii, 458 pp.; Vol. II: 531 pp. 20.3 cm.

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Although Louis did not clearly differentiate typhus from typhoid fever, he gave the first clinical-pathological description of the latter, and he was the first to use the term "typhoide" (meaning stupor) to indicate the mental condition of the patient. This two-volume treatise on the subject was based on a multitude of case studies.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 5023; Osler 3268; Wellcome III, p. 551

Gift of John Martin, M.D.