Medical Hydrology and Balneology: Environmental Aspects

Balnea
2012, núm. 6, 278-279
Medical Hydrology and Balneology: Environmental Aspects
managed until his retirement in 1982. One of his sons, Pierre, co-author of this
paper, also a professor of clinical pathology, succeeded him for 5 years in Ax les
Thermes until he joined himself onto the hospital laboratory; he was also fully
dedicated to the rheumatic patients and investigated the interest of the measure of C
Protein reactive, during his stay in Ax les Thermes.
Conclusions
This historic presentation provides us with the opportunity of presenting an original
and fruitful model of clinical practice and medical scientific investigation in the
field of balneology; one could speak of a golden paradigm for medical
balneotherapy: high level trained physicians, scientific investigation implemented in
university laboratory under academic supervision, periodically issued scientific
review, topics (investigated with the means of that time) constituting a very innovative
and still relevant approach of medical balneology (actions of sulfide
balneotherapy on metabolic, anti-stress, anti-oxidative systems).
Keywords: History Of Medicine, Clinical Balneotherapy, Scientific Investigation
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