Paul Carnot
{{Short description|French physician}}
Paul Carnot (16 January 1869, in Limoges – 1 April 1957, in Paris) was a French physician.
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.[http://www2.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/bio/?cle=3676 Biographies] – BIU Santé, Paris
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.{{cite journal|last1=Carnot|first1=P|last2=Deflandre|first2=Cl|title=Sur l'activite hematopoietique du serum au cours de la regeneration du sang|journal=Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci.|date=1906|volume=143|pages=384–386}} 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.{{cite book|author=Ahmet Höke|title=Erythropoietin And the Nervous System: Novel Therapeutic Options for Neuroprotection|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A76u7g0QnskC&pg=PA2|accessdate=23 April 2012|year=2006|publisher=Birkhäuser|isbn=978-0-387-30010-8|pages=2–}} 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).[http://www.soc-nephrologie.org/enephro/publications/hier/5_1.htm L'érythropoïétine et la fonction hémopoiëtique du rein] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308041437/http://www.soc-nephrologie.org/enephro/publications/hier/5_1.htm |date=2012-03-08 }}
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,[http://www.annales.org/archives/x/paulcarnot.html Annales des Mines] his father, Marie Adolphe Carnot was an engineer, head of the French École des Mines de Paris.[http://www.annales.org/archives/x/carnot.html Annales des Mines]
References
- [http://www.idref.fr/058604413 IDREF.fr] (list of publications)
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