Jean Baptiste Hippolyte Dance (22 February 1797, in Saint-Pal-de-Chalencon – 18 April 1832, Paris) was a French pathologist who first described Dance's sign. He was the son of a physician and studied medicine in Paris, gaining his M.D. in 1826. He was physician to the Hôpital Cochin and had just been employed to teach at the clinic of l'Hôtel-Dieu when he died of cholera, aged 35. He left a number of publications, including those describing his eponymous sign and an early description of the parathyroid tetany which occurs in hypoparathyroidism.
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- Observations sur une espèce de tétanos intermittent. Archives générales de médecine, 1831, 26: 190–205.
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