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G Richet

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[Medicine in the Cuvier Report on Natural Sciences (1810)].

Through that many sided Report to Napoleon, Cuvier delivers a plain view upon European medicine in 1800. That document remained somewhat ignored as biochemical and physiological information are scattered throughout the text, with no clear link with the "Medicine, an applied science" chapter. Chemistry and physiology of animal beings include most of the recent true data about digestion, metabolism, respiration and nervous system added to the classic irritability. Proved data, still very few, are completed by logical and well organized but theoretical concepts forshadowing future physiology, "milieu interieur" and thermal regulation among everything. But the anatomist Cuvier did not link chemistry to physiology. Clinical practice fascinate Cuvier. Nosology, thoroughly studied, disappointed the naturalist for its incapability of establishing a classification of diseases. Morbid anatomy and physical investigation, the just appearing percussion, are welcome with hope as well as experimental pharmacology and hygiene. But normal and pathological chemistry and biology are not integrated to clinical medicine leading to neglect Bichat's works and those on experimental asphyxiation ...etc. Cuvier, who was not a physician, deliberately adopted this attitude : didn't he change the effect of an expert memoir he had asked J.N. Halle, a famous physician and scientist ? But nevertheless he stated that progress in medicine is experimental! This statement report, written by a critic scientist, is an important reference mark of time, when medicine shifted, ceasing to be only empirical.

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[Study of blood calcium in a population of 3148 women. Variations with age. Correlation with other biological values].

The authors studied calcaemia and its correlations with other biochemical values in a population of 3,148 women. Calcaemia was 95.53 mg/litre +/- 3.54, a level equal to that found in 6,048 men. In 82 women (2.6 percent) the level of calcaemia was less than 90 mg/litre, and in 21 (0.66 percent) the level of calcaemia was less than 88 mg/litre. In 13 women (0.41 percent) the level of calcaemia was more than 105 mg/litre. Calcaemia in women decreased with age up to 50 years, increased again from 50 to 60 years and then fell again. There was a strong positive correlation between calcaemia and protidaemia (r = + 0.53) and a weak positive correlation between calcaemia and cholesterolaemia (r = + 0.19).

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[Pierre Rayer and the foundation in 1858 of the AGMF: an underrated social-political event].

The founding by Rayer in 1858 of the Association Générale des Médecins de France (AGMF), which gathered academic, hospital, and rural or urban doctors, was an act of professional solidarity. This action had a major social and political impact, making obsolete the Le Chapelier law of 1791, which limited to local communities the activity of provident societies. The AGMF also fought against illegal medical acts and for the dignity of medical care. It organized social health care, free for the poor and negotiated for local mutualists, helped establish relations between health care and government, and prepared the 1868 law on industrial injuries. Rayer financed the AGMF from the beginning, and devoted himself to it as a renowned clinician fully aware of the medical applications of science and as the founding President of the Société de Biologie and of Napoléon III's private physician, who fully supported the AGMF.

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[Distribution and correlations of serum uric-acid in two French adult populations: 13,885 men and 6,861 women (author's transl)].

Distributions and correlations of serum uric acid (SUA) were studied in 13,885 men and 6,861 women who were between the ages of 20 and 90. In men and women the distribution of SUA is unimodal. The average SUA value is 6,28 mg/100 ml SD: 1,19) in men and 5,05 mg/100 ml (SD: 1,10) in women, 27% of the men and 4% of the women have a SUA level above 7 mg/100 ml. In men and in women correlations of SUA with an obesity index is strong (r = 0,272; r = 0,311). In men partial correlations between SUA and age, blood pressure, cholesterolemia, glycemia and hemoglobinemia diminish when obesity index is fixed. In women these correlations are stronger and do not vary when obesity index is fixed. In men and women the correlation between SUA and creatininemia is strong and do not vary when obesity index is fixed.

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