Jean-Pierre or Pierre Blaud (1773/1774,
Nîmes
Nîmes ( , ; oc, Nimes ; Latin: ''Nemausus'') is the prefecture of the Gard department in the Occitanie region of Southern France. Located between the Mediterranean Sea and Cévennes, the commune of Nîmes has an estimated population of 148,5 ...
– 8 May 1859,
Beaucaire),
often seen as ''P. Blaud of/de Beaucaire''
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''P. Blaud de Beaucaire''
''On the Diseases of Infants and Children'', second edition, Blanchard and Lea, 1856, 735 pages, page 230.[Anger Benjamin, and Sigismond Jaccoud]
Blaud (de Beaucaire)
''Nouveau dictionnaire de médecine et de chirurgie pratiques'', v. 14, J.B. Baillière et fils, 1871, published by ''Item notes: v. 14'', page 577, original from Harvard University, digitized on December 3, 2007.
was a French doctor of medicine who in 1832
[P. Blaud. Sur les maladies chlorotiques et sur un mode de traitement spécifique dans ses affections. ''Rev. Méd. Franç. Étrang.'', 1832: 45: 341-67.]
introduced and started the use of
Blaud's pills
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or
iron pills
Iron supplements, also known as iron salts and iron pills, are a number of iron formulations used to treat and prevent iron deficiency including iron deficiency anemia. For prevention they are only recommended in those with poor absorption, ...
as a medication for patients with
anemia.
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Blaud of Beaucaire was one of the leading physicians at the Hospital of Beaucaire (''l'Hospital de Beaucaire'') in France.
''Dr. Blaud’s Observations at the Hopital de Beaucaire'', ''Observations collected in l’Hopital de Beaucaire'', ''The London Medical Repository'', 1825, page 339, original from Oxford University, digitized on November 9, 2006, (...) "''principal physician of the Hospital of Beaucaire (L’Hopital de Beaucaire)''" (...)[Office of the Surgeon-General of the United States, Joseph K. Barnes, Public Health Service of the United States, John Maynard Woodworth, Ely McClellan, John Charles Peters, John Shaw Billings, President Grant (1869-1877) of the United States, Public Health Service]
Blaud (P.), Beaucaire
''The cholera epidemic of 1873 in the United States'', published by the Government Press Office, United States, 1875, original from Harvard University, digitized on October 11, 2007, 1053 pages, page 757.
References
1774 births
1859 deaths
19th-century French physicians
People from Nîmes
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