Raphaël Lépine

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 hospital interne. In Paris he was a student of Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Afterwards he continued his education at the Universities of Berlin (1867) and Leipzig (1869). At Karl Ludwig's laboratory in Leipzig he performed important studies on the vasomotor nerves of the tongue.

In 1870 he obtained his doctorate in Paris with a dissertation titled De l'hémiplégie pneumonique. At Paris he subsequently became chef de clinique (1872), médecin des hôpitaux (1874) and agrégé at the Paris Faculty (1875). In 1877 he was appointed professor of the medical clinic in the newly established medical faculty in Lyons.

Raphaël Lépine is known for his investigations in experimental medicine, including extensive research involving glycolysis and the pathophysiology of diabetes.[1]

He was the brother of Louis Lépine, Prefect of Police for the Seine from 1893 to 1897 and again from 1899 to 1913.

Jacques Raphaël Lépine by Louis-Oscar Roty

Selected writings

References

  1. On diabetes mellitus and glycosuria by Emil Kleen
  2. IDREF.fr
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