1. Jean-Francois Coindet was a Swiss physician and researcher who is known for introducing iodine as a treatment of goitre.
10 Facts About Jean-Francois Coindet
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Jean-Francois Coindet married Catherine Walker, the daughter of Charles Walker who owned a tavern in Edinburgh.
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Jean-Francois Coindet received his medical degree in 1797 with a thesis about smallpox.
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Jean-Francois Coindet returned to Geneva in 1799 and obtained a position at the Geneva Hospital.
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Jean-Francois Coindet observed a significant shrinking of goitres after only 8 days of iodine therapy.
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Jean-Francois Coindet made his findings public on July 21,1820, in an article entitled Memoire sur la decouverte d'un nouveau remede contre le goitre in Geneva.
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Jean-Francois Coindet advised to control the dose of iodine closely to limit adverse effects.
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Jean-Francois Coindet returned to Geneva in 1823, and later became a psychiatrist.
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In 1823, Jean-Francois Coindet established the Medical Society of Geneva together with his son.
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In 1831, Jean-Francois Coindet was awarded a major prize by the French Academy of Sciences for his research about iodine.