Léon Bouveret was a French internist who was a native of Saint-Julien-sur-Reyssouze

Saint-Julien-sur-Reyssouze

Saint-Julien-sur-Reyssouze is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.-Population:-References:*...

 in the department of Ain

Ain

Ain is a department named after the Ain River on the eastern edge of France. Being part of the region Rhône-Alpes and bordered by the rivers Saône and Rhône, the department of Ain enjoys a privileged geographic situation...

. After receiving his doctorate in Paris in 1878, he became director of a clinic in Lyon

Lyon

Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....

 that was run by professor Raphaël Lépine

Raphaël Lépine

Raphaël Lépine was a French physiologist who was a native of Lyons.From 1860 he served as interne at the hôpitaux de Lyon, and later moved to Paris, where from 1865 he worked as a hospital interne. In Paris he was a student of Jean-Martin Charcot...

 (1840–1919). Soon afterwards Bouveret became a member of the Hôpitaux de Lyon.

As a young physician, Bouveret played an important role in the fight against cholera

Cholera

Cholera is an infection of the small intestine that is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting. Transmission occurs primarily by drinking or eating water or food that has been contaminated by the diarrhea of an infected person or the feces...

. In 1889 he provided an early description of paroxystic tachycardia

Tachycardia

Tachycardia comes from the Greek words tachys and kardia . Tachycardia typically refers to a heart rate that exceeds the normal range for a resting heart rate...

. The eponymous "Bouveret's syndrome" is named after him, which is an obstruction of the stomach

Stomach

The stomach is a muscular, hollow, dilated part of the alimentary canal which functions as an important organ of the digestive tract in some animals, including vertebrates, echinoderms, insects , and molluscs. It is involved in the second phase of digestion, following mastication .The stomach is...

 and the duodenum

Duodenum

The duodenum is the first section of the small intestine in most higher vertebrates, including mammals, reptiles, and birds. In fish, the divisions of the small intestine are not as clear and the terms anterior intestine or proximal intestine may be used instead of duodenum...

 caused by a gallstone

Gallstone

A gallstone is a crystalline concretion formed within the gallbladder by accretion of bile components. These calculi are formed in the gallbladder, but may pass distally into other parts of the biliary tract such as the cystic duct, common bile duct, pancreatic duct, or the ampulla of...

 that migrated through a biliogastric or bilioduodenal fistula

Fistula

In medicine, a fistula is an abnormal connection or passageway between two epithelium-lined organs or vessels that normally do not connect. It is generally a disease condition, but a fistula may be surgically created for therapeutic reasons.-Locations:Fistulas can develop in various parts of the...

.

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

Neurasthenia

Neurasthenia is a psycho-pathological term first used by George Miller Beard in 1869 to denote a condition with symptoms of fatigue, anxiety, headache, neuralgia and depressed mood...

).