Léon Audain
Léon Audain | |
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Born | Port-au-Prince, Haiti | December 17, 1862
Died | August 22, 1930 Paris, France | (aged 67)
Nationality | Haitian |
Occupation(s) | Physician, bacteriologist, parasitologist, writer, educator |
Medical career | |
Notable works | Fièvres Intertropicales, Diagnostic Hématologique et Clinique (Intertropical Fevers, Hematologic and Clinical Diagnostic) |
Léon Audain (December 17, 1862 – September 22, 1930) was a Haitian physician and professor who focused his studies mainly towards bacteriology and parasitology. He published many works during his career, including Fièvres Intertropicales, Diagnostic Hématologique et Clinique (Intertropical Fevers, Hematologic and Clinical Diagnostic), a comprehensive study of intertropical fevers conducted in collaboration with several other fellow physicians in 1910.[1]
Education
Audain completed his secondary education at a Parisian high school, then moved on to a medical college in Paris, where he completed his education.
Professional career
Audain wrote numerous articles and studies for medical forums and magazines in Paris before returning to Haiti in 1891. He gained notoriety in the country for beginning a modernizing revolution in Haitian medical practice, mainly for leading the publishing of a medical journal La Lanterne Medicale from 1899 to 1911.
Personal life
Audain was born in Port-au-Prince on December 17, 1863, and was the only child of Louis Audain and Caroline Marguerite Duthiers. He had 3 children named Georges, Suzanne Christiane Leone and Raoul with his wife, Hélène Balistan.[5] His father, Louis Audain, was a doctor, and had various educational and governmental positions, including the director of the school of medicine in Haiti in 1869, member of the Haitian Legislative Council from 1869 to 1871, and Senator from 1872 to 1876, eventually becoming the Senate president in 1876. He had 3 children: Georges, Raoul and Christiane.
Rabies scare
On April 17, 1916, Audain and his wife deboarded
Prix Léon Audain
In 1996, Ary Bordes founded the Prix Léon Audain, a prestigious award commemorating efforts of doctors and institutions in Haiti to improve the health of Haitian citizens.[7]
Bibliography
Audain authored and co-authored 8 books during his lifetime, all of which were written in French.
- De la luxation sous-glénoidienne (Subglenoidal dislocation) - 1889
- De l'Hémostase préventive dans les opérations chirurgicales. Etude théorique et pratique du pincement préventif des vaisseaux combiné au morcellement suivant la méthode de M. Périn (Dislocation under preventive homeostasis in surgical operations. Theoretical and practical study of the preventive pinching of vessels combined with fragmentation according to M. Perin's method) - 1891
- Pathologie intertropicale (doctrines et clinique), par le Dr. Léon Audain (Intertropical Pathology (doctrines and clinic), by Dr. Léon Audain) - 1904
- Le mal d'Haïti, sescauses et son traitement (The evil of Haiti, its cures and its treatment) - 1908
- Étude sociale: le mal d'Haiti, ses causes et son traitement (Social study: the evil of Haiti, its causes and its treatment) - 1908
- Fièvres Intertropicales, Diagnostic Hématologique et Clinique (Intertropical Fevers, Hematologic and Clinical Diagnostic) - 1910
- Choses d'Haïti (Things to Haiti) - 1916
- Les bases rationelles de la médication leucogène dans les infections médicales & chirurgicales (The Rational Basis of Leukogenic Medication in Medical & Surgical Infections) - 1916
Gallery
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A team of parasitologists working in the parasitology laboratory of Dr. Léon Audain.
References
- ^ Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Volume 31. Pan American Union. p. 830.
- ^ a b "Haiti History". Retrieved March 26, 2019.
- ^ Missions for Science: U.S. Technology and Medicine in America's African World. David McBride. p. 88.
- ^ Bulletin of the Pan American Union, Volume 42. Pan American Union. p. 300 & 440.
- ^ "Léon Audain". Retrieved November 9, 2018.
- ^ "Dog-Bitten Haitians Rush to N.Y. for Aid". The Pittsburgh Post. April 18, 1916. p. 7. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
- ^ "Prix, Décorations, Honneurs et Distinctions (p. 2)". Retrieved March 28, 2019.