Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol

In 1819, he was appointed acting physician at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, a post he held until he retired.

After his death in 1851 at Neuilly-sur-Seine, his daughter Adele-Augustine, married Paul Broca.

Lugol was interested in tuberculosis and presented a paper to the Royal Academy of Science in Paris in which he advocated the use of fresh air, exercise, cold bathing and drugs.

[1][2][3][4][5] Members of the Royal Academy visited Lugol's hospital and, observing an improvement in his patients over the course of sixteen months, endorsed his treatment.

[8] Lugol's iodine solution is also used in Schiller's test in order to diagnose cervical cancer.