François-Joseph Double
| François-Joseph Double | |
|---|---|
| Born |
11 March 1776 Verdun-sur-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, France |
| Died |
12 June 1842 (aged 66) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Occupation | Physician |
François-Joseph Double (1776-1842) was a French physician and co-founder of the Académie Nationale de Médecine.[1][2][3][4][5]
Biography
Early life
He was born on 11 March 1776 in Verdun-sur-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, France.[4] His family, the Double family, had been ennobled in 1378.[3] His grandfather and father were both Apothecaries.[4] He studied in Montpellier, where he was taught in Latin.[4] He moved to Paris in 1803.[4]
Career
He started his career as an apothecary in Paris.[4] He served as a physician in the French-Spanish War of 1793.[4]
As a physician, he developed the accurate observation of the clinical signs of illness, and studied the unaided auscultation of respiratory and cardiac ailments.[2] He also described tubal breathing and pulmonary rales or crackles.[2] He listened to the heart and focused on problems of the heartbeat and unusual sounds, but he failed to link them to any specific ailment.[2] Shortly after, René Laennec (1781-1826) invented the stethoscope and developed aided auscultation.[2] He wrote two books and many reports, for example about diseases like croup and cholera.[4]
In 1832 he co-founded the Académie Nationale de Médecine with Antoine Portal (1742-1832).[3] King Louis Philippe I (1773-1850), who reigned from 1830 to 1848, offered him another peerage should he renounce his medical practise, but he refused.[4]
Death
He died on 12 June 1842 in Paris, and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Legacy
His family owns the winery Château de Beaupré in Saint-Cannat, started in 1890 by Baron Emile Double (1869-1938).[3]
Bibliography
Primary sources
- Traité du croup (1811).
- Séméiologie générale ou traité des signes et de leur valeur dans les maladies (3 volumes, Paris, Croullebois).
Secondary sources
- Michel Suspène, Docteur François-Joseph Double, un itinéraire médical, en hommage à l'Académie de médecine (CDDP de Tarn-et-Garonne, Montauban, 2002).
References
- ↑ Domenico Gabrielli, Dictionnaire historique du cimetière du Père-Lachaise XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, Paris, éd. de l'Amateur, 2002, 334 p.
- 1 2 3 4 5 National Institutes of Health
- 1 2 3 4 Château de Beaupré: History
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Père Lachaise
- ↑ Olivier Walusinski (ed.), Mystery of Yawning in Physiology and Disease, Karger Publishers, 2010, p. 12