Léon Bouveret (27 September 1850 - 1929) was a French internist born in Saint-Julien-sur-Reyssouze, a community in the department of Ain.
After receiving his doctorate in Paris in 1878, he became director of a clinic in Lyon that was run by professor Raphaël Lépine (1840–1919). Soon afterwards, he became associated with the French: Hôpitaux de Lyon, and in 1880 was appointed French: professeur agrégé. He resigned from the French: Hôpitaux de Lyon in 1900, although, he resumed his work there on a few occasions during World War I.
As a young physician, Bouveret played an important role in the fight against cholera in Ardèche.[1] In 1889, he provided an early description of paroxysmal tachycardia (Bouveret's disease).[2] [3] The term "" is also named after him, being defined as a gastric outlet obstruction caused by a large gallstone migrating into the duodenal bulb through a biliogastric or bilioduodenal fistula.[4]
He is remembered for his written efforts, in particular, "French: Traité des maladies de l'estomac" (Treatise on diseases of the stomach) and "French: La neurasthénie" (a publication on neurasthenia). With Raymond Tripier (1838-1916), he was the co-author of "French: La fièvre typhoïde traité par les bains froids" (1886), a book that recommended cold baths for the treatment of typhoid fever. Beginning in 1882, he became a member of the editorial staff of French: Lyon médicale, from which many of his works were published.