Henri Feulard
| Henri Feulard | |
|---|---|
| Born |
May 20, 1858 Paris |
| Died |
May 4, 1897 (aged 38) Paris |
| Cause of death | fire |
| Nationality | French |
|
Medical career | |
| Profession | physician |
| Field | dermatology, venereology |
| Institutions | Hôpital Saint-Louis, Prison Saint-Lazare |
| Research | clinical dermatology, medical history, syphilis |
Henri Feulard (1858–1897) was a leading French dermatologist of the nineteenth century.
Life
Henri Feulard was born in Paris on 20 May 1858. He trained as a physician in the hospitals of Paris, interning at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, which at the time specialized in dermatology and venereology.
In 1886 he became Professor Jean Alfred Fournier's Chief of Clinic (a position in French teaching hospitals that meant being day-to-day head of a department nominally run by a professor), and helped found the dermatological library in the Hôpital Saint-Louis. He was appointed librarian in 1890, and the library was later renamed Bibliothèque Henri-Feulard – Centre de documentation dermatologique.
Feulard was an organizer and the secretary of the first International Congress of Dermatology, held in Paris in August 1889. He also attended the second International Congress of Dermatology, in Vienna (1892), and the third, in London (1896). He published extensively on clinical dermatology, primarily in the Annales de Dermatologie et de Syphiligraphie, of which he became editor-in-chief in 1890.
From 1892 Feulard also worked at the infirmary of the Prison Saint-Lazare, a women's prison where monthly medical inspections of registered prostitutes were carried out.
Death
On 4 May 1897 Dr Feulard, his wife, and their ten-year-old daughter Germaine attended the Bazar de la Charité, a high-class annual charity bazaar in Paris. They were present when the building caught fire. The parents managed to escape the flames, but their child had become separated from them. Dr Feulard re-entered the building in an attempt to save his daughter. Both perished. Mrs Feulard suffered burn injuries but survived.
Publications
- L'Hôpital Laënnec, ancien hospice des incurables (1634-1884), 1884.
- Histoire de la fondation de l'hôpital Saint-Louis, 1885.
- Teignes et teigneux: histoire médicale, hygiène publique, 1886.
- Fistule ombilicale et cancer de l'estomac, 1887.
- Procès-verbaux du congrès international de dermatologie, 1889.
- Musée de l'Hôpital Saint Louis: catalogue des moulages coloriés, 1889.
- Les hôpitaux de Paris, 1893.
- Iconographie des maladies cutanées et syphylitiques, 1895. With Ernest Besnier.
Commemoration
In 1946 the rue Henri Feulard, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, was named in his memory.
Bibliography
- Obituary in the St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal 72-73 (1897), p. 326.
- Daniel Wallach and Gérard Tilles, "Henri Feulard (1858–1897): The Life and Works of the Secretary of the First International Congress of Dermatology", International Journal of Dermatology 37 (June 1998), pp. 469–474.
External links
- Biography on the website of the Société Française d'Histoire de la Dermatologie.