Amédée Dechambre

French physician
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IntroFrench physician
PlacesFrance
wasPhysician
Work fieldHealthcare
Gender
Male
Birth12 January 1812, Sens
Death4 January 1886 (aged 74 years)
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Biography

Amédée Dechambre (12 January 1812, Sens – 4 January 1886, Paris) was a French physician and medical writer.
He studied medicine in Paris, where he also worked as a hospital intern. In 1844 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Strasbourg with the dissertation-thesis "Sur l’hypertrophie concentrique du cœur et les déviations de l'épine par rétraction musculaire". From 1838 to 1853 he worked as an editor of the "Gazette médicale de Paris", and he was the founder of the medical-surgical newspaper "Gazette hebdomadaire de médecine et de chirurgie". In 1886 he died in Paris following a stroke.
In 1865 he became an honorary member of the Société Médicale Allemande de Paris. In 1875 he was elected as a member of the Académie de Médecine.
He is best known as being the managing editor of the Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales, an encyclopedic medical dictionary that was published from 1864 to 1889 and spread out over 100 volumes. With Mathias-Marie Duval and Léon Lereboullet, he was co-editor of "Dictionnaire usuel des sciences médicales".

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