Charles-Eugène Quinquaud Explained

Charles-Eugène Quinquaud (26 December 1841, Lafat  - 9 January 1894, Paris) was a French internist and dermatologist.

He studied medicine in Limoges and Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1873. While working as a hospital interne, he was influenced by Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin to study dermatology. In 1878 he became médecin des hôpitaux, obtained his agrégation in 1883, and from 1886 served as chef de service at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris. During his career, he worked closely with dermatologists Ernest Besnier, Jean Alfred Fournier and Émile Vidal. In 1892 he was elected as a member of the Académie de Médecine.^[1]

In 1888 he described folliculitis decalvans, a scalp disease sometimes referred to as "Quinquaud’s disease".^{[2] [3]} His name is also associated with "Quinquaud's sign", a form of finger tremor with a sideways finger movement from the interossei.^[4] The phenomenon was first described in alcoholics, and its description was first published by a student of Quinquaud's, six years after his death.^[5]

In 1882, with physiologist Nestor Gréhant, he developed a method for determining blood volume through the use of carbon monoxide.^{[1] [6]}

Selected writings

• Étude sur les affections articulaires (first fascicle), 1876.
• Mesure de la quantité de sang contenu dans l'organisme d'un mammifère vivant (with Nestor Gréhant), 1882.
• Traité technique de chimie biologique, 1883.
• De la scrofule dans ses rapports avec la phtisie pulmonaire, 1883.
• Folliculite épilate décalvante. Réunions clin. Hôpital St. Louis, Comptes rendus. Paris, 1888-1889, 9: 17.
• Folliculite destructive des régions velues. Bulletins et memoires de la Société medicale des hôpitaux de Paris, 1888, 5: 95-98.^[3]
• Études de thérapeutique expérimentale et clinique, 1892.^[7]

See also

• Anna Quinquaud

Notes and References

1. http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1105.html Charles Eugene Quinquaud
2. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1586/edm.12.25 Folliculitis decalvans: why is there no established treatment?
3. http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1135.html Quinquaud's disease
4. http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/1136.html Quinquaud's phenomenon or sign
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=pMbhu-vXVtAC&dq=%22Quinquaud%2C+Charles%22+1841&pg=PA802 Companion to Clinical Neurology
6. Book: American Journal of Physiology. American Physiological Society (1887-). HighWire Press. 1921. v. 56–57. American Physiological Society. 314. 2016-03-18.
7. http://www.idref.fr/067713130 IDREF.fr