Émile Vidal

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Émile Vidal

Jean Baptiste Émile Vidal (born June 18, 1825 in Paris , † June 16, 1893 there ) was a French dermatologist.

Live and act

Émile Vidal studied medicine in Tours and Paris . In 1862 he became a clinician. From 1867 to 1890 he worked in the Parisian skin clinic Hôpital Saint-Louis . He was an officer in the Legion of Honor and was elected a member of the Académie nationale de médecine in 1883 .

He developed and practiced an aggressive treatment method for lupus vulgaris, in which the growths of the skin were removed by incisions and scrapes in several sessions. His American students Henry Granger Piffard and George Henry Fox adopted Vidal's treatment method in their New York practice.

Works

  • You lupus / leçons de M. le Dr É. Vidal, ...; rédigées par M. Colson, ... Delahaye, Paris 1879 (digitized version)
  • Exposé des titres et traveaux scientifique. E, Martinet, Paris 1879 (digitized) . 1879–1882 (digitized version)
  • Traitement chirurgical de quelques maladies de la peau. Leçon faite par… Vidal… et recueilli par Brocq… Delahaye, Paris 1881 (digitized)
  • Together with Henri Leloir. Symptomatologie et anatomie pathologique. Masson, Paris 1889 (digitized version)
  • Eruption généralisée et symétrique de croûtes cornées, avec chute des ongles, d'origine blennorrhagique, coïncidant avec une polyarthrite de même nature. In: Annales de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie (1869), 1893, 3ème série, vol. 4, pp. 3–11 (digitized version)

literature

  • Georges Thibierge. Notes on the successeurs de Bazin à l'Hôpital Saint-Louis. In: Bulletin de la Société française de la médecine. 1925, no. 19, pp. 129–144 therein: Emile Vidal, pp. 134–136 (digitized version )
  • Biography of Jean Baptiste Émile Vidal on the website of the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Médecine de Paris (digitized version)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry Granger Piffard and George Henry Fox. Cutaneous and veneral memoranda. Wood, New York 1885. Darin, pp. 116ff. Treatment of Lupus. With a picture of Vidal's “Lupus scarifier”. (Digitized version)
personal data
SURNAME Vidal, Émile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vidal, Jean Baptiste Émile (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1893
Place of death Paris