Léon Ambard
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French pharmacologist; born February 16, 1876, Marseille; died 1962.
Biography of Léon Ambard
Ambard studied medicine in Paris, receiving his doctorate in 1905. He was professor of pharmacology in Strassburg from 1919.
Bibliography
- Rétention chloruée dans les néphrites interstitielles.
Paris, 1905.
- Physiologie normale et pathologique des reins.
Paris, 1914; 2nd edition, 1920.
- Les hypochlorémies.
Written with J. Stahl, et al. Paris, Masson, 1938. 184 pages. (Forms Pt. 2, Rapp. Congr. fr. méd., 25. Sess. 1938.)
- Conférances de physiologie medicale sur des sujets d’actualité faites sous les auspices de l’Association des externes.
Written with Max Aron. Paris, 1935. 258 pages.
- Le diabète et sa pathogénie.
Written with Simone Trautmann and Daniel Kuhlmann.
Paris, Masson, 1946. 162 pages.
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