... Abstract Apollinaire Bouchardat was the leading clinical diabetologist of the 19th century. He invented patient education for people with type 2 diabetes. He told patients to lose weight until the urine tests for glucose they performed at home became negative. Today’s treatment of obese people...

...References References 1. Delaporte E: Deux éminent savants et académiciens: Apollinaire Bouchardat et son fils Gustave Bouchardat. Bull Soc d’Études d’Avallon 2009;150:44–59. 2. Joslin EP: Apollinaire Bouchardat. Diabetes 1952;1:490–491. 3. Bouchardat A: De la glycosurie ou Diabète...

..., Apollinaire Bouchardat suggested the suppression of bread and almost all other carbohydrates from the diet but conceded their partial reintroduction after the disappearance of glycosuria, which the patients could detect by tasting their own urine, a first in self-management! Finally, in 1889, von Mering...

... Abstract Diabetes education has a long and rich history. The first to recognize the importance of patient education was Apollinaire Bouchardat in his book Le Diabète Sucré in 1875. Another early promoter of patient education was Prof. Karl Stolte, who invented “insulin dose adjustment...

... pancreatis uso. Lugduni Batavorum, Verbeek, 1722. 25. Cawley T: A singular case of diabetes, consisting entirely in the quality of the urine; with an enquiry into the different theories of that disease. Lond Med J 1788;9:286. 26. Bouchardat A: De la glycosuria ou diabète sucré; son traitment...

... Abstract Diabetes education has a long history in Europe. The first person to introduce patienteducation in type 2 diabetes was Apollinaire Bouchardat, in his book ‘Le Diabète Sucré’(1883). Another key person was Karl Stolte, who introduced insulin dose adjustment fornormal eating. Structured...

.... Med Observ Inquir 1776;5:298. 6. Home E: Clinical Experiments, Histories and Dissections. Edinburgh, Creech, 1780. 7. Rollo J: Traite du diabète sucré. Paris, Mountandien, 1798. 8. Chevreul ME: Note sur le sucre de diabète. Ann Chim 1815;95:319. 9. Bouchardat A: De la glycosurie ou...

... (above); Soleil saccharimeter (ca. 1840; below). (The Museum of Diabetes “Karen Bruni Bøcher,” Turin; www.museodeldiabete.com.) Apollinaire Bouchardat (1806–1886) [ 9 ], professor of hygiene and pharmacist at the Hotel Dieu in Paris, the most eminent European diabetologist the 19th century, also...

... in scientific research but also in contact with the patient and always with the right psychotherapeutic stance. Joslin’s “ideal” teacher in his turn, had been Apollinaire Bouchardat (or Boùchardat, as he called him in his American accent), for whose memory he had enormous respect. When he came to Europe, he...

...References References 1. Rollo J: Cases of the Diabetes Mellitus, ed 2. London, Dilly, 1798. 2. Bouchardat A: Nouveau mémoire sur la glycosurie. Ann Thérap Suppl P 1846:162–311. 3. Tavignot B: De l’amblyopie symptomatique du diabète. Gaz Hôp 1853:412–413. 4. von Helmholtz HLF...

... in the textbooks. Magendie had published that animals were unable to synthetize glucose, protein, or fat. Apollinaire Bouchardat believed that diabetes was due to an increased absorption of glucose in the stomach (he changed his mind in later years following the findings of Bernard). Concerning glucose metabolism...

... in some countries. The existence of visual problems due to cataract in diabetes was described by John Rollo in 1798 [ 1 ] and, even in the absence of cataract, by Apollinaire Bouchardat in 1846 [ 2 ] and Francois Tavignot in 1853 [ 3 ], but it was not until after the invention...

..., a renowned center for diabetes research and care since the time of Apollinaire Bouchardat. His thesis on the spleen was considered to be excellent and he graduated at the Sorbonne in Biochemistry and Physiology. Paulescu graduated in 1897 as an MD and worked in Paris at the Hôpital Notre-Dame du Perpétuel...

... ]. Fig. 5. The incidence of diagnosed diabetes in Oslo, 1925–1954. Similar to the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian war (September 19, 1870 to January 28, 1871), when Apollinaire Bouchardat noted that starvation markedly reduced the incidence and severity of diabetes mellitus, the incidence...