Pierre-Constant Budin
Pierre-Emile Launois (1856–1914) Adolphe Pinard
(1844–1934) Pierre-Constant Budin (1846–1907)Pierre-Constant Budin (French pronunciation: Enencourt-le-Sec, a village in northern France.
In 1876 he earned his medical degree in
Légion d'honneur
.
Pierre Budin was a founder of modern
premature infants
who were too weak to receive nourishment by conventional methods.
He was the author of Le nourrisson: alimentation et hygiène - enfants débiles, enfants nés à terme (1900), a book that was later translated into English as "The Nursling. The feeding and hygiene of premature and full-term infants" (1907).[1][2]
Associated eponyms
- Budin's obstetrical joint:, Also known as the posterior intra-occipital joint, which is a band of squamous and the two rounded prominences of the occipital bone.
- Budin's rule: A rule that states that a bottle-fed infant should not consume more than 10% of its own weight of cow's milk per day.
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pierre-Constant Budin.
- Breastfeeding Medicine Dr. Pierre Budin: Promoter of Breastfeeding in 19th Century France
- Dorlands Medical Dictionary
- Neonatology.org History of Perinatal Medicine
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