Henri Gougerot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French dermatologist
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Place of Birth: Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, ĂŽle-de-France, France
About Henri Gougerot
- Henri Gougerot (July 2, 1881 – 1955) was a French dermatologist born in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine.
- Gougerot is remembered for his work with numerous dermatological disorders.
- In 1908 he earned his doctorate from the University of Paris, and shortly afterwards was professor agrégé at the faculty of medicine.
- In 1928 he was appointed to the chair of dermatology and syphilology, becoming chief physician at the HĂ´pital Saint-Louis.
- For his achievements during World War I, he was awarded the French Croix de guerre. With Charles Lucien de Beurmann (1851-1923), he conducted extensive research of fungal diseases that included pioneer studies of sporotrichosis.
- In 1925 he described three separate cases of atrophy of the salivary glands associated with dryness of the eyes, mouth and vagina.
- Several years later, Swedish ophthalmologist Henrik Sjögren (1899-1986) wrote a detailed and comprehensive report of the disease in "Zur Kenntnis der keratoconjunctivitis sicca" (To the knowledge of keratoconjunctivitis sicca).
- Today this autoimmune disease is known as Sjögren's syndrome, however it is sometimes referred to as "Gougerot-Sjögren syndrome".Gougerot was a prolific writer of over 2500 articles.
- He was the publisher of "Archives dermato-syphiligraphiques de la clinique de l’hôpital Saint-Louis", and with Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856-1938) and Raymond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud (1864-1938), was editor of "Nouvelle Pratique Dermatologique"; an eight-volume work on dermatology. In 1928 he was appointed president of the Société française de prophylaxie sanitaire et morale, and in 1940 became a member of the Académie de Médecine.The eponymous "Gougerot's trilogy" is named after him, defined as disease with three main dermatological symptoms (erythematous papular lesions, purpuric macules, and dermal/dermohypodermal nodules) that typically affect the thighs and legs.
- Described by Gougerot in the treatise, "Trisymptome atypique".
- It is also known as "Gougerot's disease".
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