| Gaspard Goyrand | |
| Birth Name: | Gaspard Goyrand |
| Birth Date: | 3 February 1803 |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Physician, surgeon, politician |
| Parents: | Gabriel-Antoine Goyrand Marie Eulalie Ravanas |
| Relatives: | Jean-Louis Goyrand (paternal great-uncle) |
Gaspard Goyrand (3 February 1803 – 23 June 1866) was a French general practitioner, surgeon and politician from Aix-en-Provence. He helped treat cholera from 1835 to 1854, while serving as Deputy Mayor of Aix from 1838 to 1848.
Jean-Gaspard Goyrand was born in 1803.[1] He was the son of Gabriel-Antoine Goyrand (1754-1826), a religious painter, and Marie Eulalie Ravanas (1762-1825).[1] His father was in exile in Italy during the French Revolution of 1789, and later returned to Aix.[1] His great-uncle, Jean-Louis Goyrand (1718-1790), was a Professor of Medicine at the University of Aix-en-Provence.[1]
He received his doctorate degree in Paris in 1828, where he was taught by Guillaume Dupuytren.[2] He later disagreed with his former professor.[3]
He practised as a physician and surgeon in Aix-en-Provence.[1] From 1835 to 1854, he treated patients with cholera.[1] In the 1850s, he moved to Lourmarin during a third epidemic of cholera.[1] He also served as supervisor of the hot spring in Aix. People believed hot springs were a cure for certain diseases, at the time.[1]
From 1838 to 1848, he served as the Deputy-Mayor of Aix-en-Provence.[1] [2]
He is remembered for a type of wrist-spraining which was named after him.[4]
He died in 1866.[1]
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.[5]