Alfred Hardy (dermatologist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French dermatologist
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Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France
About Alfred Hardy (dermatologist)
- Alfred Louis Philippe Hardy (30 November 1811, Paris – 23 January 1893, Paris) was a French dermatologist. In 1836 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, where in 1839 he became chef de clinique under Pierre Fouquier at the Hôpital de la Charité.
- In 1847 he obtained his agrégation at the faculty of medicine in Paris, and four years later, succeeded Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol as chef de service at the Hôpital Saint-Louis.
- For several years he held classes in dermatology at the hospital.
- In 1867 he succeeded Jules Béhier as chair of internal pathology at the university, and in 1876 attained the chair of clinical medicine at Hôpital Necker.In 1867 he became a member of the Académie de médecine (section for therapy).
- In 1889 he served as president of the First International Congress of Dermatology and Syphilography.
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