Justin-Pascal Angelin (born 17 May 1795) was a French Naval surgeon born in Marseille.[1]
Accomplishments
editHe was aboard the barge Louqsor, which was set to bring the Luxor Obelisk to the Place de la Concorde in Paris. While stationed in Egypt, Angelin observed a lethal cholera epidemic that claimed the lives of 150,000 of the country’s 3.5 million residents in a matter of two months.[2] In 1833, he published "Expédition du Louxor ou relation de la campagne faite dans la Thébaide pour en rapporter l’obélisque occidental de Thèbes" about his experiences on the mission, and the following year he pursued his doctorate in medicine at the University of Paris, where he wrote his thesis about the cholera outbreak that had occurred in Luxor.[3] In 1838, Angelin authored another piece entitled "Mémoire sur l’épidémie de fièvre jaune qui a régné en 1838 à la Guadeloupe, et particulièrement à la Pointe-à-Pitre."[4]
References
edit- ^ Bulletin des Lois du Royaume de France IX. Imprimie Royal. 1846. p. 166.
- ^ LaVerne Kuhnke (1990). Lives at Risk: Public Health in Nineteenth Century Egypt. University of California Press. p. 51.
- ^ Justin-Pascal Angelin (1834). Du cholera en Égypte: observations faites sur cette maladie et sur son traitement pendant l'expédition du Luxor entreprise en 1831. Imprimerie de Didot le Jeune.
- ^ Bibliographie de la France ou Journal Général de l'Imprimerie et de la Librairie, et des Cartes Géographiques, Gravures, Lithographies et Oeuvres de Musique. Chez Pillet Ainé. 1839. p. 521.
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