Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol
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'''Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol''' ([[18 August]][[1786]] - [[16 September]][[1851]]) was a [[France|French]] physician.
J.G.A. Lugol was born in [[Montauban]]. He studied medicine in [[Paris]] and graduated [[Doctor of Medicine|MD]] in 1812. In [[1819]] he was appointed acting physician at the [[Hôpital Saint-Louis]] a post he held until he retired. After his death in 1851 at [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], his daughter Adele-Augustine, married [[Paul Broca]].
Lugol was interested in [[tuberculosis]] and presented a paper to the Royal Academy of Science in Paris in which he advocated the use of fresh air, exercise, cold bathing and drugs. He also published four books on scrofulous diseases and their treatment (1829, 1830, 1831, 1834).
He suggested that his [[Lugol's iodine|iodine solution]] could be used to treat tuberculosis. This assertion attracted much attention at the time. Although not efficacious in treating tuberculosis, Lugol's iodine was successfully used to treat [[Hyperthyroidism|thyrotoxicosis]] by [[Henry Plummer|Plummer]].
==References==
* B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). ''Dictionary of Medical Eponyms''. Parthenon Publishing. ISBN 1-85070-333-7
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