Henri-Alexandre Danlos

Henri-Alexandre Danlos (born March 26, 1844 in Paris , † September 12, 1912 in Chatou ) was a French dermatologist .

Life

Against his father's wish to take over the family business, Henri-Alexandre Danlos studied medicine in Paris. After graduating with honors in 1869, he earned his doctorate in medicine in 1874 with a thesis on the relationship between menstrual bleeding and skin diseases. At the beginning of his professional career he was most interested in laboratory work and chemistry and Danlos carried out research in the laboratory of Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1817-1884). In 1881 he achieved the status of Konsiliarius ( Médecin des Hôpitaux ), roughly equivalent to a current specialist. Now he worked with Edmé Félix Alfred Vulpian (1826–1887). In 1885 Danlos became chief physician at the Hôpital Tenon in Paris, where he stayed for five years before moving to the public health service. The next ten years were an unhappy time for him because he suffered from a protracted, painful illness that made him withdrawn and pessimistic. In 1895 he received an appointment at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, where he made a reputation for himself as a caring doctor and excellent diagnostician in internal medicine. However, he was also increasingly concerned with the development of new treatment methods in dermatology .

Act

Danlos carried out numerous meticulous studies on various arsenic and mercury-containing preparations for the treatment of syphilis and other skin diseases. He pioneered the use of radium to treat the skin conditions associated with lupus erythematosus . Together with the physicist Eugène Bloch , he was the first to use radium for skin tuberculosis . In addition, a group of congenital connective tissue diseases with characteristic skin changes, the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome , is named after him and his Danish colleague Edvard Ehlers .

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Individual evidence

^ Henri Alexandre Danlos, E. Bloch: Note sur le traitement du lupus érythemateux par des applications de radium. In: Bull. Soc. Frç. Dermat. Syph. Volume 12, 1901, pp. 438-440.

personal data
SURNAME	Danlos, Henri-Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French doctor and dermatologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 26, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1912
Place of death	Chatou

[1] Henri Alexandre Danlos, E. Bloch: Note sur le traitement du lupus érythemateux par des applications de radium. In: Bull. Soc. Frç. Dermat. Syph. Volume 12, 1901, pp. 438-440.