Fernand Widal

Street sign Rue Fernand Widal

Georges Fernand Isidore Widal (born March 9, 1862 in Dellys / Boumerdes Province near Algiers , Algeria , † January 14, 1929 in Paris ) was a French medic , bacteriologist and pathologist .

Life

Fernand Widal studied medicine at the University of Paris . He studied with Ilya Ilyich Metschnikow and Pierre Paul Émile Roux , among others . Widal received his doctorate in 1889 , appointed professor of pathology in 1911 as successor to Paul Georges Dieulafoy and professor of internal medicine in 1918. He was married and had no children.

Widal was a member of the Académie de Médecine (1906), the Académie des sciences (1919), the Royal Society of Medicine (1921) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1922.)

The Hôpital Fernand-Widal in Paris has been named after him since 1959. In addition, Rue Fernand Widal in the 13th arrondissement of Paris bears his name.

Act

In 1896, Widal described the serological method for diagnosing typhoid, later known as the Gruber-Widal reaction . He showed that in suspected infected cases the antibodies appearing in the serum can be detected by an agglutination reaction in the presence of antigens of the Salmonella typhi pathogen . Other work by Widal was devoted to the pathological basis of kidney diseases, the influence of sodium chloride intake (table salt) on edema and the dietary influence on urea levels.

Fonts (selection)

Etude sur l'infection puerpérale, la phlegmatia alba dolens et l'érysipèle . G. Steinheil, Paris 1889. ( digitized on Gallica )
Exposé des travaux scientifiques du Dr. Fernand Widal. G. Steinheil, Paris 1904. ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
Streptococci, Staphylococci, Pneumococci, Collibacillosis. Baillière, Paris 1912. ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
with Georges Henri Roger, Pierre Joseph Teissier: Nouveau traité de médicine . 1923. 23rd volumes.

Web links

Commons : Fernand Widal - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Widal, Fernand in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

^ Christoph Gradmann : Georges Fernand Isidore Widal . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century . 1st edition. CH Beck, Munich 1995, p. 380. Medical dictionary. From antiquity to the present . 2nd Edition. 2001, p. 331. 3rd edition. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, p. 345. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .
↑ Christoph Gradmann: Widal Georges Fernand Isidore. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte . Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1486
^ ^A ^b S. Y. Tan, K. Linskey: George Fernand Widal (1862-1929): serologist and clinician-scientist. In: Singapore medical journal. Volume 53, Number 5, May 2012, pp. 297-298, ISSN 0037-5675 . PMID 22584967 .
^ Professor Fernand Widal. In: Canadian Medical Association journal. Volume 20, Number 3, March 1929, p. 298, ISSN 0008-4409 . PMID 20317266 . PMC 1710456 (free full text).
↑ Widal, G. Fernand I. In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 38 : Supplement: Riksdagens bibliotek – Öyen; tillägg . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1926, Sp. 1225 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
↑ LA Olopoenia, AL King: Widal agglutination test - 100 years later: still plagued by controversy. In: Postgraduate medical journal. Volume 76, Number 892, February 2000, pp. 80-84, ISSN 0032-5473 . PMID 10644383 . PMC 1741491 (free full text). (Review).
↑ Fernand Widal: On The Sero-Diagnosis Of Typhoid Fever. In: The Lancet. 148, 1896, pp. 1371-1372, doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (01) 76589-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Widal, Fernand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Widal, Georges Fernand Isidore (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French medic, bacteriologist and pathologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dellys , Boumerdes Province near Algiers , Algeria
DATE OF DEATH	January 14, 1929
Place of death	Paris

[1] Christoph Gradmann : Georges Fernand Isidore Widal . In: Wolfgang U. Eckart , Christoph Gradmann (Hrsg.): Ärztelexikon. From antiquity to the 20th century . 1st edition. CH Beck, Munich 1995, p. 380. Medical dictionary. From antiquity to the present . 2nd Edition. 2001, p. 331. 3rd edition. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin / New York 2006, p. 345. Ärztelexikon 2006 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-540-29585-3 .

[2] Christoph Gradmann: Widal Georges Fernand Isidore. In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte . Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1486

[tan-3] A ^b S. Y. Tan, K. Linskey: George Fernand Widal (1862-1929): serologist and clinician-scientist. In: Singapore medical journal. Volume 53, Number 5, May 2012, pp. 297-298, ISSN 0037-5675 . PMID 22584967 .

[4] Professor Fernand Widal. In: Canadian Medical Association journal. Volume 20, Number 3, March 1929, p. 298, ISSN 0008-4409 . PMID 20317266 . PMC 1710456 (free full text).

[5] Widal, G. Fernand I. In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 38 : Supplement: Riksdagens bibliotek – Öyen; tillägg . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1926, Sp. 1225 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

[6] LA Olopoenia, AL King: Widal agglutination test - 100 years later: still plagued by controversy. In: Postgraduate medical journal. Volume 76, Number 892, February 2000, pp. 80-84, ISSN 0032-5473 . PMID 10644383 . PMC 1741491 (free full text). (Review).

[7] Fernand Widal: On The Sero-Diagnosis Of Typhoid Fever. In: The Lancet. 148, 1896, pp. 1371-1372, doi: 10.1016 / S0140-6736 (01) 76589-0 .