Sigismond Jaccoud 1659951 189769605 2008-02-07T17:56:39Z Belovedfreak 2684294 Remove link to dab page [[Member]] using [[:en:Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups|popups]] '''Sigismond Jaccoud''' was a [[Swiss]] [[physician]], born [[November 29]], [[1830]], [[Geneva]]; [[died]] [[1913]]. Sigismond Jaccoud was born in [[1830]] in [[Geneva]], where he went to [[school]] and was [[educated]] in [[music]] and the [[science]] of [[literature]]. In [[1849]] he went to [[Paris]] to study [[medicine]] - and supported himself in that [[city]] teaching [[music]] and [[literature]]. He became ''interne des hפpitaux'' in [[1855]]. After graduation in [[1859]] he specialised in [[internal medicine]] and in [[1860]] defended his [[doctoral]] [[thesis]], on the [[pathogenesis]] of [[albuminuria]]. In [[1862]] he became ''medecin des hopitaux'', in [[1863]] ''professeur''. In [[1877]] he was appointed [[professor]] of internal [[pathology]] at the [[medical]] [[Faculty (university)|faculty]] and member of the [[Académie Nationale de Médecine|Academy]]. Jaccoud was a very famous and highly estimated lecturer at several of Paris' hospitals - L'Hפpital Saint-Antonie, l'Hפpital de la Charitי, l`Hפpital de la Lariboisiטre and l'Hפpital de la Pitiי. Following the death of [[Charles Lasègue|Ernest-Charles Lasègue]] (1816-1883) in 1883, he was also made professor of internal medicine at the Pitiי hospital in Paris. A Swiss, Jaccoud was a very popular lecturer in Paris' hospitals in the late 1800's. In 1883 he published a three-volume work on [[pathology]], comprising almost 3.000 pages. In [[rheumatology]], and partly in [[cardiology]], Jaccoud was probably best known for his 23. Lecture, which has been perpetuated in medical history because of its description of Jaccoud's syndrome. At the turn of the century [[rheumatic fever]] ravaged among children and youth, and the fact that there was, unlike today, no rational [[pharmaceutical]] [[therapy]] available, interest concentrated on the natural course of the disease. As he published his lectures in book form, they are still available for study - covering an impressive variety of medical questions. On [[tuberculosis]], the greatest medical problem of the time, with its numerous complications, no less than ten lectures were needed. In his books he emphasised how he enjoyed thorough clinical examinations, [[epidemiology]], research and teaching. Jaccoud died in [[1913]], at the age of 83 years. Jaccoud published numerous articles in ''Dictionnaire de Medecin et de Chirurgie pratiques'' of which he was co-publisher. ==Terms== * '''Jaccoud's dissociated fever''' — fever with slow and irregular pulse in tuberculous meningitis of adults. * '''Jaccoud's sign''' — prominence of the [[aorta]] in the suprasternal notch: an indication of [[leukemia]]. :[[Dorland's Medical Dictionary]] (1938) [[Category:Swiss physicians]] [[Category:1830 births|Jaccoud, Sigismond]] [[Category:1913 deaths|Jaccoud, Sigismond]] [[ru:Жакку, Сигизмунд]]