Jean Charles Faget

Jean Charles Faget was a physician born on June 26, 1818 in New Orleans. He is best known for the Faget signa medical sign that is the unusual combination of fever and bradycardia. The sign is an important diagnostic symptom of yellow fever.

Faget was born to Jean Baptiste Faget and F. Le Mormand. His parents were refugees from Santo Domingo . They fled Hispaniola during the Haitian Revolution and spent some time in Cuba before settling in New Orleans in 1809. Jean Charles was educated by Jesuits in New Orleans before furthering his education at Collge Rolin in Paris from 1830 to 1837. Faget was then admitted into the University of Paris college of internal medicine and graduated magna cum laude in 1845. He returned to New Orleans and married Glady Ligeret de Chazey and became the father of thirteen children. He was the grandfather of Guy Henry Faget, and greatgrandfather of Maxime Faget.

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