1. Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud was a French physician born in Bragette, now part of Garat, Charente.
10 Facts About Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
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Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud received his medical doctorate in 1823 and later was a professor at the Charite in Paris.
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In 1862 Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud was elected president of the Academie de Medecine, and in 1868 he became a member of the Academie des sciences.
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Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud performed research of many medical diseases and conditions, including cancer, cholera, heart disease and encephalitis, to name a few.
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Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud is remembered for providing a correlation between rheumatism and heart disease, and French medical dictionaries still refer to acute rheumatoid endocarditis as "Bouillaud's disease".
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Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud described this condition in the treatise "Traite clinique des maladies du coeur".
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Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud was an early advocate of the drug digitalis for treatment of heart ailments.
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Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud referred to digitalis as the "opium of the heart".
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In 1825 Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud published "Traite clinique et physiologique de l'encephalite, ou inflammation du cerveau" in which he includes one of the earliest studies on localization of brain functions.
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Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud maintained that loss of articulate speech was associated with lesions of the anterior lobe.