Professor

Xavier Arnozan
Charles Louis Xavier Arnozan
Professor Arnozan, photography by Chambon (Deschiens edition), in the BIU Santé "collection of portraits".
Born(1852-11-12)12 November 1852
Died5 February 1928(1928-02-05) (aged 75)
Bordeaux, Gironde, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materFaculté de médecine de Paris
OccupationProfessor of Medicine
Years active1875–1925
EmployerFaculté de médecine de Bordeaux
Known forArnozan syndrome
Parents
  • Alfred Arnozan (father)
  • Clémence Giard (mother)

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.

Biography

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 [fr]. 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 Philippart [fr] 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-Tuberculosis 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]

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.

Works

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Distinctions

Legacy

References

  1. ^ Jeantet (3 March 2007). "Histoire de la famille Arnozan" (in French). Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  2. ^ GeneaStar. "Xavier ARNOZAN". geneanet.org. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  3. ^ a b Ole Daniel Enersen. "Charles Louis Xavier Arnozan". Whonamedit?. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  4. ^ Medvei, V.C. (15 January 1993). The History of Clinical Endocrinology: A Comprehensive Account of Endocrinology from Earliest Times to the Present Day. CRC Press. p. 250. ISBN 9781850704270. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Notice no. 19800035/241/31985". Base Léonore (in French).
  6. ^ a b Claude, H.; Janes, Juliette. "ARNOZAN Charles Louis Xavier" (in French). Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  7. ^ Burnand, Robert (1924). Qui êtes-vous? (in French). Paris: G. Ruffy. p. 19.

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