Paul Carnot

Paul Carnot (16 January 1869, in Limoges – 1 April 1957, in Paris) was a French physician.

Paul Carnot

He served as médecin des hôpitaux in Paris, becoming a professor of therapeutic medicine in 1918 to the Paris medical faculty. In 1922 he was elected as a member to the Académie de Médecine.[1]

Career

In 1906 he coined the term hémopoïétine (hemopoietin) to define a humoral factor he believed was responsible for regulation of red blood cell production. This being based on experiments with laboratory rabbits that he conducted with his graduate student Clotilde-Camille DeFlandre.[2] They noticed that an increase of reticulocytes in normal rabbits occurred following the injection of blood plasma taken from anemic donor rabbits who had earlier been subject to bloodletting.[3] Findings from their research were published in a paper titled Sur l'activité hémopoïétique du sérum au cours de la régénération du sang (On the hemopoietic activity of serum during the regeneration of blood).[4]

Carnot was the author of numerous treatises on a wide array of medical subjects. With Paul Brouardel (1837–1906), Augustin Nicolas Gilbert (1858–1927) and others, he published the multi-volume Nouveau traité de médecine et de thérapeutique. The following are a few of his better known writings:

  • Les régénerations d'organes, 1899 (Regeneration of organs)
  • Maladies microbiennes en général, 1905 (Microbial illnesses in general)
  • Médications histopoiétiques et médications histolytiques, 1911 (Medications histopoietic and histolytic)
  • Precis de therapeutique, 1925 (Summary of therapy)
  • La clinique medicale de l'Hôtel-Dieu et l'oeuvre du Pr Gilbert 1927 (The Medical Clinic of the Hôtel-Dieu and the work of Professor Gilbert)

His great-grand-father was Lazare Carnot, a French general,[5] his father, Marie Adolphe Carnot was an engineer, head of the French École des Mines de Paris.[6]

References
  1. Biographies – BIU Santé, Paris
  2. Carnot, P; Deflandre, Cl (1906). "Sur l'activite hematopoietique du serum au cours de la regeneration du sang". Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. 143: 384–386.
  3. Ahmet Höke (2006). Erythropoietin And the Nervous System: Novel Therapeutic Options for Neuroprotection. Birkhäuser. pp. 2–. ISBN 978-0-387-30010-8. Retrieved 23 April 2012.
  4. L'érythropoïétine et la fonction hémopoiëtique du rein Archived 2012-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Annales des Mines
  6. Annales des Mines
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