Amédée Dechambre

He studied medicine in Paris, where he also worked as a hospital intern.

In 1844 he received his medical doctorate from the University of Strasbourg with the dissertation-thesis "Sur l’hypertrophie concentrique du cœur et les déviations de l'épine par rétraction musculaire".

[1] In 1865 he became an honorary member of the Société Médicale Allemande de Paris.

[1] He is best known as being the managing editor of the Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales,[2] an encyclopedic medical dictionary that was published from 1864 to 1889 and spread out over 100 volumes.

With Mathias-Marie Duval and Léon Lereboullet, he was co-editor of "Dictionnaire usuel des sciences médicales".