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DELERY, François Charles, physician, author. Born, St. Charles Parish, La., January 28, 1815; son of Louis Boisclair and Marie Babin. Studied medicine, Paris, 1829-1842. Married Odile Deléry. Medical career: Practicing physician in New Orleans, 1842-1849; president, New Orleans Board of Health, 1849-1851; co-founder of Société Médicale de la Nouvelle Orléans, 1859; Louisiana delegate to Philadelphia Quarantine Congress, 1858; coroner, City of New Orleans, 1865. Lived in Havana, Cuba, during the Civil War. Literary career (books): Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine présentée et soutenue le 10 février 1842 (1842); Essai sur la liberté (1847); Etudes sur les passions (1849); Quelques mots sur le nativisme (1854); Précis historique de la fièvre jaune (1859); Replique de Dr. Charles Deléry aux mémoires du Dr. Charles Faget (1860); Dernière replique au Dr. Faget (n.d.); Mémoire sur l'épidémie de fièvre jaune qui a regné à la Nouvelle Orléans et dans les campagnes pendant 1867 (1867); (plays) "L'Ecole du peuple" (1877). (article) "Chroniques indiennes," Comptes-Rendus de l'Athénée Louisianais (1878); (essays) during Civil War, wrote collection of pro-Confederate essays entitled "Le Dernier Jour d'un sceptique." Removed to Bay St. Louis, Miss., 1871, and practiced medicine there until 1880. Died, Bay St. Louis, June 12, 1880; interred New Orleans. C.A.B. Sources: Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896, (1967); Louisiana Union Catalog (1959); Goodspeed's Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana, 2 vols. (1892); New Orleans Daily Picayune, June 14, 1880.

Jean-Charles Faget was born to French parents in New Orleans. He studied in Paris from 1837 to 1845, and after receiving his doctorate in 1844 settled in New Orleans. He stayed in Paris 1866-1867 and subsequently lived in New Orleans for the rest of his life. His son, Charles Faget, became head of the clinic at the University of New Orleans under professor Samuel Merrfield Bemiss (1821-1884).

In 1858 he discovered a specific pathogonomic sign of yellow fever, a slow pulse at high fever. For his discovery he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur [Knight of the Legion of Honour].

Faget, J. C. The type and specificity of yellow fever established with the aid of the watch and thermometer. Paris : J.B. Ballière & Sons ; New Orleans : Am. Lutton, 1875.

RECHERCHE DANS LES PERIODIQUES :
Archives générales de médecine. - 1860. - 1860, série 5, n° 15 -- Page d'accueil de Medic@ | Nouvelle recherche, p.510-511.

Yellow Fever: Clinical Notes
By Just Touatre, Charles Louis Chassaignac
Published by New Orleans medical and surgical journal, ltd., 1898
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Apr 9, 2008
206 pages

MORE YELLOW FEVER CASES; New Orleans Board of Health Officially Declares Six Persons Stricken with the Malady. NO DEATHS HAVE RESULTED Of the Twelve Cases Regarded as Suspicious, Six Have Entirely Recovered, Four Are Convalescing, and Two Are Critically Ill.
September 13, 1897, Wednesday, Page 3, 1500 words