Jean Garel (28 March 1852–1931) was a French physician who specialised in the field of laryngology.
Jean Garel | |
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| Born | 28 March 1852 Lyon, France |
| Died | 1931 (aged 78–79) |
| Occupation | French physician |
In 1879 he succeeded Léon Bouveret as chef de clinique médicale to the Faculté de médecine at Lyon.[1] In 1881 he became a titular member of the Société des sciences médicales in Lyon.[2] His name is associated with "Garel's sign", a medical sign involving dysphagia located in the tonsils and posterior fauces, if persistent for more than three weeks, it is usually of syphilitic origin.[3]
Selected works
edit- Note sur un nouveau cas de névrome plexiforme (Lu à la Société des sciences médicales de Lyon), (1877); Note on a new case of plexiform neuroma.
- Recherches cliniques et statistiques sur la valeur de l'asymétrie faciale dans le diagnostic de l'épilepsie, (1878); Clinical research and statistics on the value of facial asymmetry in the diagnosis of epilepsy.
- De la Gymnastique vocale dans le traitement de la voix eunuchoïde et de l'aphonie hystérique, (1887); Voice therapy in the treatment of eunuchoid voice and hysterical aphonia,
- Atlas stéréoscopique d'anatomie du nez et du larynx (anatomie normale et pathologique), (1897, with Frédéric Justin Collet); Stereoscopic atlas of anatomy of the nose and larynx (normal and pathological anatomy).
- Diagnostic et traitement des maladies du nez, "rhinoscopie", (1897); Diagnostics and treatment of maladies of the nose (rhinoscopy).[2][4]
References
edit- ^ Google Books L'Union médicale: journal des intérêts scientifiques et pratiques, etc.
- ^ a b Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
- ^ A Practical Medical Dictionary ... by Thomas Lathrop Stedman
- ^ IDREF.fr bibliography