Jean Garel

Jean Garel
Born 28 March 1852 (1852-03-28)
Lyon
Died 1931 (1932) (aged 79)
Occupation French physician

Jean Garel (28 March 1852, Lyon – 1931) was a French physician who specialized in the field of laryngology.

In 1879 he succeeded Léon Bouveret as chef de clinique médicale to the Faculté de médecine at Lyon.[1] In 1881 he became a titular member of the Société des sciences médicales in Lyon.[2] His name is associated with "Garel's sign", a medical sign involving dysphagia located in the tonsils and posterior fauces, if persistent for more than three weeks, it is usually of syphilitic origin.[3]

Selected works

References

  1. Google Books L'Union médicale: journal des intérêts scientifiques et pratiques, etc.
  2. 1 2 Prosopo Sociétés savantes de France
  3. A Practical Medical Dictionary ... by Thomas Lathrop Stedman
  4. IDREF.fr bibliography
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