Gaspard Goyrand (3 February 1803 – 23 June 1866) was a French general practitioner, surgeon and politician from

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, city and Communes of France, commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the Subprefectures in France, s ...

. He helped treat

cholera Cholera () is an infection of the small intestine by some Strain (biology), strains of the Bacteria, bacterium ''Vibrio cholerae''. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea last ...

from 1835 to 1854, while serving as Deputy Mayor of Aix from 1838 to 1848.

Early life

Jean-Gaspard Goyrand was born in 1803.Rues d'Aix
/ref> He was the son of Gabriel-Antoine Goyrand (1754-1826), a religious painter, and Marie Eulalie Ravanas (1762-1825). His father was in exile in

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during the French Revolution of 1789, and later returned to Aix. His great-uncle, Jean-Louis Goyrand (1718-1790), was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Aix-en-Provence. He received his doctorate degree in

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in 1828, where he was taught by Guillaume Dupuytren.genealogy
/ref> He later disagreed with his former professor.

Career

He practised as a physician and surgeon in Aix-en-Provence. From 1835 to 1854, he treated patients with cholera. In the 1850s, he moved to

Lourmarin Lourmarin (; ) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. Its inhabitants are called ''Lourmarinois''. Geography Lourmarin is located in the French region of Provence, at the foot o ...

during a third epidemic of cholera. He also served as supervisor of the

hot spring A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a Spring (hydrology), spring produced by the emergence of Geothermal activity, geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow ...

in Aix. People believed hot springs were a cure for certain diseases, at the time. From 1838 to 1848, he served as the Deputy-Mayor of

. He is remembered for a type of wrist-spraining which was named after him.

Death

He died in 1866.

Legacy

The ''Rue Goyrand'', in the Quartier Mazarin of Aix-en-Provence, is named in his honour. It runs from the ''Rue Laroque'' to the ''Rue Frédéric Mistral''.Google Maps
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References

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