Jean Baptiste Philippe Barth (September 24, 1806 – November 20, 1877) was a French pathologist who was a native of Sarreguemines

Sarreguemines

Sarreguemines is a commune in the Moselle department in Lorraine in north-eastern France.It is the seat of an arrondissement.-Geography:...

. He studied medicine at the University of Paris

University of Paris

The University of Paris was a university located in Paris, France and one of the earliest to be established in Europe. It was founded in the mid 12th century, and officially recognized as a university probably between 1160 and 1250...

, and was afterwards an assistant to Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis

Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis

Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis was a French physician, known for introducing the use of the "numerical method" in the field of medicine — i.e., the concept that knowledge about a disease, its history, clinical presentation and treatment, could be derived from aggregated patient data.Louis became...

 (1787-1872) at the Hôpital de la Pitié. In 1840 he was appointed Médecin des hôpitaux, and practiced medicine in Parisian hospitals for the next thirty years. In 1871 he was elected vice president of the Académie de Médecine, and soon afterwards became its president.

Jean Barth is remembered for treatises on auscultation

Auscultation

Auscultation is the term for listening to the internal sounds of the body, usually using a stethoscope...

 that he co-authored with pediatrician Henri-Louis Roger

Henri-Louis Roger

Henri-Louis Roger was a French pediatrician born in Paris.He studied medicine in Paris, earning his doctorate in 1839 with a dissertation on auscultation titled De l'auscultation et se valeur semiologique. In 1847 he became agrégé at the medical faculty of Paris, and from 1860 was associated with...

 (1809-1891), including "A Manual of Auscultation and Percussion" and "A Practical Treatise on Auscultation", which have been translated into English.

Associated eponym

• Barth's hernia: A hernia
  Hernia
  A hernia is the protrusion of an organ or the fascia of an organ through the wall of the cavity that normally contains it. A hiatal hernia occurs when the stomach protrudes into the mediastinum through the esophageal opening in the diaphragm....
  
   of the loops of intestine
  Intestine
  In human anatomy, the intestine is the segment of the alimentary canal extending from the pyloric sphincter of the stomach to the anus and, in humans and other mammals, consists of two segments, the small intestine and the large intestine...
  
   between a persistent vitelline duct
  Vitelline duct
  In the human embryo, the vitelline duct, also known as the omphalomesenteric duct, is a long narrow tube that joins the yolk sac to the midgut lumen of the developing fetus...
  
   and the serosa of the abdominal wall.

External Links

• Jean Baptiste Philippe Barth's A manual of auscultation and percussion (Philadelphia, 1849).