Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave

Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave (1795-1877)

Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave (5 May 1795 9 April 1877) was a French dermatologist who practiced medicine at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris.

In 1823 he was appointed interne to the hospitals of Paris, and in 1835 became professor agrégé to the medical faculty. At Hôpital Saint-Louis, Cazenave was a student of Laurent-Théodore Biett, a physician credited for introducing into French medicine an anatomical approach for analysis of skin disorders. This analytical method was first developed by two English physicians; Robert Willan and Thomas Bateman.

In 1828, with Henri Édouard Schedel, he published a book based on Biett's lectures and observations, titled Abregé pratique des maladies de la peau. The compilation was to become a highly influential dermatological work, being translated into a number of different languages.[1]

From 1844 until 1852, Cazenave was editor of Annales des Maladies de la Peau et de la Syphilis, a journal dedicated to scientific dermatology.[2]

Cazenave is credited with coining the term lupus érythémateux (lupus erythematosus).[3] In 1844 he first described a rare dermatological condition known as pemphigus foliaceus.[4]

Selected writings

References

  1. Who Named It (bibliography)
  2. books.google: Vol. 1 (1844), Vol. 4 (1852)
  3. PIEL-l. Clinical Manifestations of Cutaneous Lupus
  4. JAMA. 1913;61(2):102-105. doi:10.1001/jama.1913.04350020028012.

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