Germain Sée (February 6, 1818 – May 12, 1896) was a French clinician who was a native of

Ribeauvillé Ribeauvillé (; Alsatian: ''Rappschwihr''; ) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It was a sub-prefecture of the department until 2015. Its inhabitants are called ''Ribeauvillois''. Geography The ...

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. He studied medicine in

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, obtaining his doctorate in 1846 with a dissertation on ergotism ("''Recherches sur les propriétés du seigle ergoté et de ses principes constituants''"). In 1852 he became a physician of hospitals in Paris,See (Germain)
biuSante and subsequently worked at La Rochefoucauld (from 1857), Beaujon (from 1861), Pitié (from 1862) and Charité (from 1868) hospitals. In 1866 he succeeded Armand Trousseau as chair of

therapeutics A therapy or medical treatment (often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx) is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a medical diagnosis. As a rule, each therapy has indications and contraindications. There are many different ...

at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, and in 1876 attained the chair of

clinical medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care practice ...

at the

Hôtel-Dieu de Paris In French-speaking countries, a hôtel-Dieu ( en, hostel of God) was originally a hospital for the poor and needy, run by the Catholic Church. Nowadays these buildings or institutions have either kept their function as a hospital, the one in Paris b ...

.Indiana Medical Journal: A Monthly Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Volume 15
/ref> Sée specialized in the study of lung and cardiovascular diseases. He also made contributions in his research of

chorea Chorea (or choreia, occasionally) is an abnormal involuntary movement disorder, one of a group of neurological disorders called dyskinesias. The term ''chorea'' is derived from the grc, χορεία ("dance"; see choreia), as the quick movem ...

and its association with

rheumatic disorders Rheumatism or rheumatic disorders are conditions causing chronic, often intermittent pain affecting the joints or connective tissue. Rheumatism does not designate any specific disorder, but covers at least 200 different conditions, including art ...

. He conducted extensive studies of various drugs, being an advocate of

antipyrine Phenazone (INN and BAN; also known as phenazon, antipyrine (USAN), or analgesine) is an analgesic (pain reducing), antipyretic (fever reducing) and anti-inflammatory drug. While it predates the term, it is often classified as a nonsteroidal ant ...

as a general analgesic, and

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for treatment of acute rheumatism. Among his writings were the multi-volume "''Médecine clinique''", a work that he co-authored with Frédéric Labadie-Lagrave, and "''Leçons de pathologie expérimentale''", a book on

experimental pathology Experimental pathology, also known as investigative pathology, is the scientific study of disease processes through the microscopic or molecular examination of organs, tissues, cells, or body fluids from diseased organisms. It is closely related ...

that was edited by Maurice Raynaud. His "''Des maladies spécifiques, non tuberculeuses, du poumon''" was later translated into English and published with the title "''Diseases of the lungs (of a specific not tuberculous nature)''" (1885).Diseases of the lungs
OCLC WorldCat In 1869 he became a member of the

Académie de Médecine An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...

References

Historia de la medicina
(translated biography)

Origins of Neuroscience by Stanley Finger ( Sydenham's chorea) 1818 births 1896 deaths People from Ribeauvillé Academic staff of the University of Paris 19th-century French physicians {{France-med-bio-stub