De la ligature des vaisseaux comme moyen de traitement de l'éléphantiasis des Arabes.

Demarquay, Jean-Nicolas, 1811–1875.

Journal : Revue médico-photographique des hôpitaux de Paris ; vol. vi.

Paris : Adrien Delahaye, 1874.

Description : 121–125 p., [1 l.] pl. ; ill.: 1 photo. ; 23.5 cm.

Photograph : albumen mounted to printed leaf, view of the lower extremities of a 38 year-old female.

Subject : Leg — Lymphatic disorders ; Elephantiasis.

Notes :

• Author caption: M. Demarquay.
• Medical degree, 1847.
• Cofounder, Ambulance de la Presse.
• Surgeon, Maison Municipale de Santé, Paris.
• GM-5344.1: (1863) Note sur une tumeur...etc. Description of embryonic Wuchereria bancrofti in hydrocele fluid.
• GM-5885: Traité des tumeurs de l'orbite (1860).
• Offprint (and recension) from, Bulletin de la Société de chirurgie de Paris, 3. s., v. iii ; pp. 155–157.
• Eponym: Demarquay's sign – indication of syphilis in the trachea.
• Photo caption: Planche XIII – Elephantiasis.
• Index Medicus: 10401741790.

Demarquay's 1863 discovery of embryonic microfilariae in a hydrocele, led to the association of parasites with lymphatic disorders. This report is a follow up of a patient treated for her elephantiasis by the surgeon Félix-Adolphe Richard (1822-1878) of Hopital Cochin, who ligated the woman's femoral artery in 1864. The case was widely published as a success, but ten years later, Demarquay found no beneficial change in the dimensions of the patient's leg and he censured Richard's procedure.