Léon Bouveret

Léon Bouveret (1850-1929) was a French internist who was a native of Saint-Julien on Reyssouze in the department of Ain. After receiving his doctorate in Paris in 1878, he became director of a private clinic in Lyon that was run by professor Raphaël Lépine (1840-1919). Soon afterwards Bouveret becomes a member of les Hôpitaux de Lyon.

As a young physician, Bouveret played an important role in the fight against cholera. In 1889 he provided an early description of paroxystic tachycardia. The eponymous Bouveret's syndrome is named after him, which is an obstruction of the stomach and the duodenum caused by a gallstone that migrated through a biliogastric or bilioduodenal fistula.

Bouveret is also remembered through his written works, particularly the Traité des maladies de l'estomac (Treatise of diseases of the stomach) and La neurasthénie (publication on neurasthenia).

Reference

 * Who Named It?; Léon Bouveret

Léon Bouveret