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Léon Louis Rostan was born on March 17, 1790, in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France. He was the son of a wealthy bourgeois family.
A portrait of Léon Louis Rostan
Léon Louis Rostan
Montmartre Cemetery, Paris, France
Tomb of Professor Dr. Leon Louis Rostan (1790-1866)
A portrait of Doctor Louis Leon Rostan (1790 - 1866) member of the Academy of Medicine Granet Museum of Aix en Provence. (Photo by: Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
A portrait of Doctor Louis Leon Rostan (1790 - 1866)
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Léon Louis Rostan was born on March 17, 1790, in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, France. He was the son of a wealthy bourgeois family.
Rostan received a good education in Marseilles and at boarding schools in Paris. He received his medical degree on 13 May 1812 with the dissertation Essai sur le cliarlatanisme, dealing with the sociology and ethics of medicine. His thesis defense was presided over by Pinel, whose influence remained paramount in Rostan's thought.
In 1809 Rostan became an interne des hopitaux at La Salpetriere in Paris, serving under the surgeon A. M. Lallement and then under Philippe Pinel.
Named an inspector in the Service de Sante at La Salpetriere, Rostan performed outstanding service during the epidemic of exanthematic typhus in 1814. He himself suffered a severe attack of the disease.
Appointed medecin-adjoint at La Salpetriere in 1818, he organized courses in clinical medicine. These lectures, held at the bedside, were presented in a straightforward manner but with great erudition and a highly developed clinical sense. They were immensely popular and influenced auditors as celebrated as J. M. Charcot and K. R. Wunderlich.
During this period Rostan conducted original research on encephalomalacia, myocardial hypertrophy, and cardiac asthma. His scientific publications were notable for the precision of their clinical observations and for the clarity of their anatomopathological explanations. Following his appointment in 1833 as a professor of clinical medicine at the Hotel-Dieu in Paris, Rostan's teaching became more dogmatic.
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1828An opponent of vitalism and of the medical system of Broussais, Rostan developed and defended a doctrine that was termed “organicism" by his adversary, Frederic-Joseph Berard of Montpellier.
Rostan was a typical representative of the anatomico-clinical school of Paris. Confident of its sensualist and positivist approach and able to draw on the rich material for observation furnished by the great urban hospitals, this school constituted a bridge between Hippocratic and modern experimental medicine. In all of his scientific work, Rostan pursued the same goal: to explain clinical symptoms by specific organic lesions.
Rostan was a member of the Académie Nationale de Society Française Médecine Légale. In 1845, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Physical Characteristics: At the end of his life, Rostan suffered from a long illness, rendered hemiplegic by cerebral apoplexy.
Rostan married late in life and subsequently divided his time between work at the hospital and increasingly longer stays at his country house in Vauxcelles, Provence.