Léon Bouveret (27 September 1850 – 1929) was a French

internist Internal medicine, also known as general medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases in adults. Its namesake stems from "treatment of diseases of th ...

born in

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, a community in the department of

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. After receiving his doctorate in

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in 1878, he became director of a clinic in

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

that was run by professor

Raphaël Lépine Jacques Raphaël Lépine (6 July 1840 – 17 November 1919) was a French physiologist who was a native of Lyon. Biography From 1860 he served as interne to the hospitals of Lyon, and later moved to Paris, where from 1865 he also worked as a hospi ...

(1840–1919). Soon afterwards, he became associated with the , and in 1880 was appointed '. He resigned from the in 1900, although, he resumed his work there on a few occasions during

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. As a young physician, Bouveret played an important role in the fight against

cholera Cholera () is an infection of the small intestine by some Strain (biology), strains of the Bacteria, bacterium ''Vibrio cholerae''. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea last ...

Ardèche Ardèche (; , ; ) is a Departments of France, department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Southeastern France. It is named after the river Ardèche (river), Ardèche and had a population of 328,278 as of 2019.paroxysmal tachycardia Paroxysmal tachycardia is a form of tachycardia which begins and ends in an acute (or paroxysmal) manner. It is also known as Bouveret-Hoffmann syndrome. Cause The cause of this condition is not accurately known, though it is probably of nerv ...

(Bouveret's disease). The term "" is also named after him, being defined as a

gastric outlet obstruction Gastric outlet obstruction (GOO) is a medical condition where there is an obstruction at the level of the pylorus, which is the outlet of the stomach. Individuals with gastric outlet obstruction will often have recurrent vomiting of food that ha ...

caused by a large

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migrating into the

duodenal bulb The duodenal bulb (also ampulla of duodenum, duodenal ampulla, or duodenal cap) is the initial, dilated portion of (the superior part of) the duodenum just distal to the stomach; it begins at the pylorus and ends at the neck of the gallbladder. ...

through a biliogastric or bilioduodenal

fistula In anatomy, a fistula (: fistulas or fistulae ; from Latin ''fistula'', "tube, pipe") is an abnormal connection (i.e. tube) joining two hollow spaces (technically, two epithelialized surfaces), such as blood vessels, intestines, or other h ...

.Bouveret's syndrome I
at

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He is remembered for his written efforts, in particular, "'" (Treatise on diseases of the stomach) and "'" (a publication on

neurasthenia Neurasthenia ( and () 'weak') is a term that was first used as early as 1829 for a mechanical weakness of the nerves. It became a major diagnosis in North America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries after neurologist Georg ...

). With Raymond Tripier (1838-1916), he was the co-author of "'" (1886), a book that recommended cold baths for the treatment of

typhoid fever Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a disease caused by '' Salmonella enterica'' serotype Typhi bacteria, also called ''Salmonella'' Typhi. Symptoms vary from mild to severe, and usually begin six to 30 days after exposure. Often th ...

. Beginning in 1882, he became a member of the editorial staff of ', from which many of his works were published.

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