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Faget
Faget may refer to: People with the surname * Alfredo Faget (1923–2003), Cuban basketball player * Jean Charles Faget (1818–1884), American physician ** Faget sign, a medical sign of fever and bradycardia indicating yellow fever * Guy Henry Faget (1891–1947), American physician *Maxime Faget (1921–2004), American engineer * Mignon Faget (born 1933), American jewelry designer Places * Le Faget, commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France * Faget-Abbatial commune in the Gers department in southwestern France * Mount Faget, Antarctic mountain Other uses * "Faget" (song), a 1994 song by the nu metal group Korn from their album ''Korn'' * Faget sign, a medical sign of fever and bradycardia indicating yellow fever See also * Făget (other), several places in Romania * Fagot (other) *Faggot (other) ''Faggot'' is a word used, usually pejoratively, to refer to a gay man. Faggot, faggots, or faggoting may refer to: Arts and cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mignon Faget
Mignon Faget (born November 1933) is a jewelry designer based in her native New Orleans, Louisiana. Faget has long been acknowledged as one of New Orleans' premier designers of fine jewelry. Her family settled in the city in the late 18th century after leaving Haiti. Painter Jacqueline Humphries is her daughter. Jewelry designer John Humphries is her son. Early life and education Mignon Faget was raised in a Creole French downtown family in New Orleans, by her father, a doctor from the West Indies and her mother of French descent. Mignon Faget has a sister of 16 years her eldest and a brother of 9 years her eldest. Faget attended the Roman Catholic Academy of the Sacred Heart as a young woman. She credits much of her talent to her years at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College where she graduated in 1955 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a concentration in sculpture. While at Newcomb College she studied under Jules Struppeck (1915–1993), Pat Travigno (b. 1922) and Sarah "Sadie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Faget
Alfredo Faget (1 July 1923 – 18 July 2003) was a Cuban basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in .... References 1923 births 2003 deaths Basketball players at the 1948 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Cuban men's basketball players Olympic basketball players for Cuba Sportspeople from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Place of birth missing 20th-century Cuban sportsmen {{Cuba-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Charles Faget
Jean Charles Faget was a medical doctor born on June 26, 1818, in New Orleans. He is best known for the Faget sign—a medical sign that is the unusual combination of fever and bradycardia. The sign is an important diagnostic symptom of yellow fever. Personal life Faget was the grandson of Jean Faget and Marie-Anne Normand. His parents were refugees from Santo Domingo (Saint-Domingue). They fled Hispaniola during the Haitian Revolution and spent some time in Cuba before settling in New Orleans in 1809. Jean Charles was educated by Jesuits in New Orleans before furthering his education at Collège Rolin in Paris from 1830 to 1837. Faget was then admitted into the University of Paris' college of internal medicine and graduated magna cum laude in 1845. He returned to New Orleans and married Glady Ligeret de Chazey and became the father of thirteen children. He was the grandfather of Guy Henry Faget, and great-grandfather of Maxime Faget. Faget was one of many well-educated Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faget Sign
In medicine, the Faget sign—sometimes called sphygmothermic dissociation—is the unusual pairing of fever with bradycardia (slow pulse). (Fever is usually accompanied by tachycardia (rapid pulse), an association known by the eponym " Liebermeister's rule".) The Faget sign is named after Louisiana physician Jean Charles Faget, who studied yellow fever in Louisiana. Faget sign is often seen in: * Yellow fever *Typhoid fever *Brain abscess *Tularaemia *Brucellosis *Colorado tick fever *Some pneumonias - ''Legionella'' pneumonia and ''Mycoplasma ''Mycoplasma'' is a genus of bacteria that, like the other members of the class ''Mollicutes'', lack a cell wall, and its peptidoglycan, around their cell membrane. The absence of peptidoglycan makes them naturally resistant to antibiotics ...'' pneumonia *Drug fever (e.g. beta-blockers,Neuroimmunomodulation. 1999 Jul-Aug;6(4):305-17. Beta-adrenergic receptor subtype effects on stress fever and thermoregulation. Mayfield KP, Sosz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Henry Faget
Guy Henry Faget (1891–1947) was an American medical doctor who revolutionalized the treatment of leprosy, by demonstrating the efficacy of promin, as described in a paper published in 1943. Promin is a sulfone compound, synthesized by Feldman and his co-workers in 1940, which is a chemotherapeutic agent that was determined to be effective against tuberculosis in experimental animals. He was the grandson of Jean Charles Faget, and father of Maxime Faget. Life For 25 years he was a distinguished officer of the US Public Health Service. In 1940 he became the director of the United States Marine Hospital (National Leprosarium) at Carville, Louisiana, United States of America. He was a member of the International Leprosy Association (ILA) and a consultant to the Advisory Medical Board of LWM. He died in 1947, as a result of a fall and after being affected by heart disease. Leprosy in the United States On May 7 to 9, 1942, he was invited to the 44th Annual Meeting of the Medical Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Faget
Maxime Allen "Max" Faget (pronounced ''fah-ZHAY''; August 26, 1921 – October 9, 2004) was an American mechanical engineer. Faget was the designer of the Mercury spacecraft, and contributed to the later Gemini and Apollo spacecraft as well as the Space Shuttle. Life Faget was the son of American doctor Guy Henry Faget, and great-grandson of another prominent physician, Jean Charles Faget. Born in Stann Creek Town, British Honduras (today Dangriga, Belize), he attended City College of San Francisco in San Francisco, California, and he received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University in 1943. After three years as a submariner aboard in the U.S. Navy, Faget joined the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia as a research scientist. While working for NACA at Langley, he worked on the design of the X-15 hypersonic spacecraft. In 1958, Faget became one of the 35 engineers who formed the Space Task Group, creating the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
