Denis Jourdanet
Physician, Deceased Person
1815 – 1892
Who was Denis Jourdanet?
Denis Jourdanet was a French physician and physiologist born in Juillan, Hautes-Pyrénées. He is remembered for pioneer studies of altitude sickness and hypoxia.
As a wealthy physician, Jourdanet traveled extensively throughout mountainous regions of Mexico during the mid 19th century. Here he studied the effects of "mountain sickness" that climbers experienced at higher altitudes. From these studies he was the first person to make a connection between reduced atmospheric oxygen pressure and elevated erythrocyte counts in humans. At the time Jourdanet referred to the condition as "barometric anoxemia". He was a friend and colleague to physiologist Paul Bert, to whom he provided the necessary equipment such as a decompression chamber for laboratory research of medical conditions caused by lowered oxygen pressure.
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- Born
- May 1, 1815
Juillan - Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Died
- May 6, 1892
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on July 23, 2013
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