Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol
Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol (18 August 1786 – 16 September 1851) was a French physician.
Lugol was born in Montauban. He studied medicine in Paris and graduated with a medical degree in 1812. In 1819, he was appointed acting physician at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, a post he held until he retired. After his death in 1851 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, his daughter Adele-Augustine, married Paul Broca.
Lugol was interested in
He suggested that his iodine solution could be used to treat tuberculosis. This assertion attracted much attention at the time. Although not efficacious in treating tuberculosis,[7] Lugol's iodine was successfully used to treat thyrotoxicosis by Plummer.[8]
Lugol's iodine solution is also used in Schiller's test in order to diagnose cervical cancer.
References
- ^ Mémoire sur l'emploi de l'iode dans les maladies scrofuleuses (1829) (in French)
- ^ Mémoire sur l'emploi des bains iodurés dans les maladies scrofuleuses (1830) (in French)
- ^ Essays on the Effects of Iodine in Scrofulous Diseases (1831)
- ^ Troisième mémoire sur l'emploi de l'iode dans les maladies scrofuleuses (1831) (in French)
- ^ Researches and observations on the causes of scrofulous diseases (1842)
- ^ Michael Ryan, M.D. editor (1833) "Report addressed to the Royal Academy of Science, on a Memoir by M. Lugol, on the Use of Iodine in Scrofulous Diseases", The London Medical and Surgical Journal
- ^ Lydia M. DeWitt (1916) "The Present Status of Tuberculosis Chemotherapy", Studies from the Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute, Chicago
- OCLC 30419800
Sources
- B.G. Firkin & J.A.Whitworth (1987). Dictionary of Medical Eponyms. Parthenon Publishing. ISBN 1-85070-333-7
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