François-Amilcar Aran (12 July 1817, in

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– 22 February 1861, in

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) was a French physician. He studied medicine in Bordeaux and received his doctorate in Paris with a thesis on

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s. In Paris he subsequently became a hospital physician and a professor agrégé. He worked as a deputy physician to Léon Louis Rostan at the

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, where he held popular clinical lectures. He also distinguished himself in his work performed at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine.François-Amilcar Aran
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(biography) With Duchenne de Boulogne, the eponymous " Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy" is named. Aran first described the disease in an article titled ''Recherches sur une maladie non encore décrit du systéme musculaire (atrophie musculaire progressive)'' (1850).Aran-Duchenne spinal muscular atrophy
Who Named It He was known for his translation of foreign works, he translated James Henry Bennett’s ''Practical Treatise on Inflammation of the Uterus and Its Appendages and on the Connexion with other Uterine Diseases'' as ''Traité pratique de l'inflammation de l'utérus'', and Joseph Skoda’s ''Abhandlung über Perkussion und Auskultation'' as ''Traité de percussion et d’auscultation'' (1854). Aran's ''Manuel pratique des maladies du coeur et des gros vaisseaux'' (1842) was later translated into English and published a
''Practical manual of the diseases of the heart and great vessels''
(1843).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aran, François-Amilcar 1817 births 1861 deaths Physicians from Bordeaux 19th-century French physicians