Amédée Dechambre (12 January 1812 in

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– 4 January 1886 in

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) was a French physician and

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. He studied medicine in Paris, where he also worked as a hospital intern. In 1844 he received his medical doctorate from the

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with the dissertation-thesis "''Sur l’hypertrophie concentrique du cœur et les déviations de l'épine par rétraction musculaire''". From 1838 to 1853 he worked as an editor of the "''Gazette médicale de Paris''", and he was the founder of the medical-surgical newspaper "''Gazette hebdomadaire de médecine et de chirurgie''". In 1886, he died in Paris following a stroke.Dechambre, Amédée
biuSante (biographical information) In 1865 he became an honorary member of the ''Société Médicale Allemande de Paris''. In 1875, he was elected as a member of the

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. He is best known as being the managing editor of the
Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales
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bibliography an encyclopedic

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that was published from 1864 to 1889 and spread out over 100 volumes. With Mathias-Marie Duval and Léon Lereboullet, he was co-editor of "''Dictionnaire usuel des sciences médicales''".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dechambre, Amedee 1812 births 1887 deaths People from Sens French medical writers 19th-century French physicians