Professor Xavier Arnozan | |
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Charles Louis Xavier Arnozan | |
Born | |
Died | 5 February 1928 Bordeaux, Gironde, France | (aged 75)
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | Faculté de médecine de Paris |
Occupation | Professor of Medicine |
Years active | 1875–1925 |
Employer | Faculté de médecine de Bordeaux |
Known for | Arnozan syndrome |
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Charles Louis Xavier Arnozan (12 November 1852 – 5 February 1928) was a French physician, professor of therapeutics then of medical clinic at the Faculty of Medicine of Bordeaux, member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine, deputy mayor of Bordeaux in charge of hygiene.
He was born in Bordeaux, from an old family of merchants, son of Clémence Giard and the pharmacist Alfred Arnozan (1815-1888) and grandson of the delivering surgeon Amand Arnozan (1779-1861).[1][2] After high school, he studied medicine at the Faculty of Bordeaux where his teachers were Maurice Denucé and Paul-Louis Lande . In Paris, in 1879, he defended his medical thesis entitled "Experimental study of the mechanical acts of vomiting", which earned him a bronze medal. He became an agrégé in 1880.[3]
He described folliculitis decalvans, a scalp disease sometimes referred to as “Arnozan syndrome” or “Quinquaud’s disease”.[3]
With Louis Vaillard (1850-1935), he showed that duct of Wirsung ligation causes atrophy of the pancreas but not diabetes in contradiction with the works of Joseph von Mering (1849-1908) and Oscar Minkowski.[4]
During the First World War, he was head doctor of two military hospitals 1bis and 28 in Bordeaux from 25 August 1914 to 10 January 1919. He was named to the division order by General Quinquandon, commander of the 18th region, on 20 November 1917.[5]
He was deputy mayor of Bordeaux (Fernand PhilippartTuberculosis Federation of the Gironde, he endowed the city with a strong hygiene policy. Thus, he created several anti-tuberculosis and anti-venereal dispensaries and was also a member of the administrative commission of the Hospices civils de Bordeaux.[6]
mayor) from 1912 to 1925, in charge of the management of the municipal services of Assistance and Hygiene. From this position, as well as that of vice-president of the Anti-He was elected National Correspondent of the Academy of Medicine for the Division of Anatomy and Physiology on 11 February 1913 and National Associate on 23 June 1925.[6]
He was the director of the Journal de médecine de Bordeaux and died in Bordeaux on 5 February 1928.