Bouvere, Leon

Leon Bouvere was born in 1850 in the small town of Saint-Julien-sur-Resouz , located 70 km north of Lyon . His father was a doctor , and was engaged in the education and training of his son from early childhood. As a gifted child , Leon found himself already while studying high school - in particular, he brilliantly won the school academic competition in Latin versification .

Bouvere received his basic medical education in Lyon, continued in Paris , where he, in 1873 , took third place among forty candidates in an internship competition at the Paris Hospital ( Fr. -Hôpitaux de Paris ). In 1878, at the age of 29, he received his doctorate and returned to Lyon. There he became director of the newly established Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine in Lyon, which was led by Professor Rafael Lepine ( Fr. Raphaël Lépine , 1840 - 1919 ). The following year, he became a doctor at the Hôpitaux de Lyon hospital. In 1880, Bouvere was appointed assistant professor .

In 1884, Leon Bouvere and his young colleagues examined the outbreaks of the cholera epidemic in Ardeche , organized an examination, treatment and general care for patients with cholera. For two years, Bouvere and Raymond Tripier ( French Raymond Tripier ) wrote the book “Treating typhoid fever with cold baths” - about a rather harsh but effective treatment method that quickly gained recognition in Lyon ^[4] .

Probably the greatest achievement of Bouvere was the textbook “Treatment of Diseases of the Stomach” ( Fr. Traité des maladies de l'estomac , 1893 ) - this book has remained a recognized medical textbook for decades. In this work, Bouvere proved himself to be a strong supporter of the surgical treatment of gastric diseases and a pioneering doctor who enthusiastically supported new advanced surgical methods. Since 1882 he became a member of the editorial committee of the magazine Lyon médicale, in which he subsequently published many of his scientific works. All Bouvere publications have been translated into German .

Bouvere stopped working at the Hôpitaux de Lyon Hospital in 1900 . However, during the First World War, he returned to his work in this institution several times ^[4] . Due to adverse circumstances, he was never appointed professor at the faculty . Bouvere continued his own practice, which eventually expanded to a vast scale, as many colleagues and students consulted with him about their own complex patients . Leon Bouvere was considered an outstanding diagnostician . He personally took part in the care of his patients, he himself conducted chemical and bacteriological studies.

• Bouvere I syndrome is an acute obstruction of the stomach or duodenum caused by bile calculi that migrated through the biliary- gastric or biliary- duodenal fistula
• Bouvere II Syndrome - An Early Description of Paroxysmal Tachycardia

• "Les sueurs morbides." Work for the position of assistant professor of the Faculty of Medicine in Lyon, Paris, 1880
• "Syphilis, ataxie, cardiopathie." Paris, 1885
• “La fièvre typhoïde traité par les bains froids” (shared with Raymond Tripier) Paris, 1886
• "De la tachyardie essentielle paroxystique," Revue de médecine, Paris, 1889 , 9: 753-793, 837-855.
• Traité d'emphyème Paris, 1888
• "La neurasthénie" Paris, 1890 ; 2nd edition, 1891
• “La dyspepsie par hypersécretion gastrique” (with Eugène Devic) Paris, 1891
• Traité des maladies de l'estomac Paris, 1893
• Essai sur la pathogénie du cancer Paris, 1930

• A dictionary of medical eponyms: Léon Bouveret
• Gunnar Wickbom: Internmedicinaren som stödde kirurgin. Läkartidningen, Stockholm, 1993, 90 (3): 162-165 (Swedish)
• S. Kavuturu, V. Parithivel, J. Cosgrove, Bouveret's syndrome: A rare presentation of gallstone disease
• Gerych D.I., Gerych I.D., Vaschuk Vs. B. Bouvere Syndrome (inaccessible link)