Jean-Martin Charcot was born on November 29th, 1825, in Paris. French physician and scientist, he achieved fame in the field of psychiatry and neurology in the second half of the 19th century. He was considered one of the greatest clinicians and professors of medicine in France and, together with Guillaume Duchenne, the founder of modern …
Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral was born on December 1st, 1894. Born in Belém do Pará, he directed the Butantã Institute shortly after its creation, in two phases: from 1919 to 1921 and from 1928 to 1938. He was on the cover of Time magazine in 1929 , as the central character of the report …
Philippe Ricord was born on December 10th, 1800. In 1838, the French doctor refuted John Hunter’s experience, showing that syphilis and gonorrhea are not the same disease. Ricord’s skin cancer is the initial parchment-like lesion of syphilis.
Alfred Louis Charles de Musset was born on December 11th, 1810, in Paris. French poet, novelist, and playwright of the 19th century, one of the exponents of the literary period known as Romanticism. He gives his name to the “Musset’s sign” (a rise and fall of the head following the heartbeat), a symptom caused by …
Edvard Munch was born on December 12th, 1863 in Ådalsbruk, Norway. This painter was one of the precursors of German impressionism and expressionism. His work “Inheritance” portrays a well-dressed woman, wiping tears, with a child with syphilis on her lap. It depicts the vertical transmission of syphilis, congenital syphilis. We observed at https://www.josepocas.com/2018/09/a-heranca/ that the …
Paracelsus, pseudonym of Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim. He was born on December 17th, 1493. Swiss-German physician, alchemist, physicist, astrologer, and occultist. He is also credited with creating the name of the element zinc, calling it zincum. Paracelsus appears among scientists and reformers like Andreas Vesalius, Nicolau Copérnico and Georgius Agricola, and, therefore, seen …
Pierre Paul Émile Roux was born on December 17th, 1853. A French physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist, Roux was one of the closest collaborators of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), co-founder of the Pasteur Institute and responsible for the production of anti-diphtheria serum, the first effective therapy for this disease. In 1903, Metchnikoff and Roux discovered that syphilis …
Claude Quétel was born on December 30th, 1939. A French historian and teacher born in Bernières-surMer (Calvados). Author of two dozen books, he won several awards for his work, including the “Prix Marianne 2015”, with “The scary Doctor Petiot — crazy or guilty?”, “Prix Therouanne 1982”, with “De par le Roy: Essay on stamp letters”, …
