Raoul Bensaude
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Raoul Bensaude (1866 - October 25, 1938) was a French physician who practiced medicine in Paris. He is known for his work with Emile Charles Achard (1860-1944) involving the description of paratyphoid fever and isolation of the bacillus, Salmonella paratyphi B.
With Pierre-Emile Launois (1856-1914) he described a rare form of obesity characterized by accumulation and progressive enlargement of fat underneath the skin of the upper trunk, neck, arms and legs. They two doctors documented their findings in a 1898 treatise named De l’adénolipomatose symétrique. This condition is known today as multiple symmetrical lipomatosis or as the "Launois-Bensaude Syndrome". Bensaude made contributions in the field of gastroenterology, and was a pioneer in French proctology. He is credited popularizing sclerotherapy for treatment of hemorrhoids, and also has a model of rectoscope named after him.
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- Launois-Bensaude syndrome @ Who Named It
- Bensaude's sclerotherapy @ Who Named It.
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