Charles Lucien de Beurmann, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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French mycologist
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About Charles Lucien de Beurmann
- Charles Lucien de Beurmann (6 December 1851 – 1923) was a French dermatologist and mycologist.
- He studied medicine in Paris, where in 1884 he became médecin des hôpitaux (hospital physician).
- In 1889 he was appointed chef de service (department head) at the Hôpital Lourcine, afterward working at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, where he remained until 1916.
- He studied exotic diseases in his travels throughout Asia. Beurmann is known for his contributions in the study of sporotrichosis, a disease that was fairly common in Europe at the time.
- The fungus that causes sporotrichosis was earlier identified by American physician Benjamin Robinson Schenck (1873-1920) and was named Sporothrix schenckii in Schenck's honor.
- Beurmann did extensive research involving the cutaneous aspects of the disease, and with Henri Gougerot (1881-1955), he published the monograph, Les Sporotrichoses, a treatise that was based on 250 cases of sporotrichoses in France.
- In 1903 dermatologist Raymond Sabouraud (1864-1938) suggested to Beurmann, the use of potassium iodide as a remedy.
- Because of Beurmann's thorough research of sporotrichosis, Sporothrix schenckii was sometimes referred to as Sporotrichum beurmanni.
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