Jean–Alfred Fournier (1832-1914) was a French dermatologist.
Fournier was the first French syphilologist; the first professor of cutaneous and syphilitic diseases at the Paris Faculty of Medicine; and a most prominent European dermatovereologist
He specialised in congenital syphillis, stressing the importance of syphilis as a cause of degenerative diseases and parasyphilitic conditions
Keen Medical historian Fournier translated and re-published works on ‘Le Mal francais‘ (The French Evil – Syphillis) by authors including Girolamo Fracastoro (1478–1553); Jean de Vigo (1460–1525)
Biography
- Born 12 May 1832
- 1857 – Intern, Hôpital du Midi under Philippe Ricord (1800–1889) [co-authoring Lectures on chancre]
- 1863 – Médecine des hôpitaux, Hôpital du Midi
- 1867 – Hôtel-Dieu de Paris
- 1876 – Chef de service at the Hôpital Saint-Louis
- 1880 – Member of the Académie de Médecine
- Died 25 December 1914
Medical Eponyms
Fournier gangrene (1883)
Fournier gangrene – a fulminant polymicrobial necrotizing fasciitis affecting the perineal or genital regions
Other eopnyms
- Fournier sign (1891) – scars on the mouth following the healing of lesions in congenital syphilis.
- Fournier tibia (1891) Fusiform thickening and anterior bowing of the tibia in congenital syphilis.
- Reactive arthritis (1868)
Major Publications
- Fournier JA. Recherches sur la contagion du chancre. 1857
- Fournier JA. De la contagion syphilitique. 1860
- Fournier JA. Thèse: De l’uremie. 1863
- Fournier A. Le rhumatisme blenorrhagique. Annales de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie (Paris). 1868;1(1):120, 161, 289, 319. [Reactive arthritis]
- Fournier JA. Nouveau carême de pénitence et purgatoire d’expiation, à l’usage des malades affectés du mal française ou mal vénérien. 1871
- Fournier JA. On the treatment of syphilis. 1872
- Fournier JA. Leçons sur la syphilis : étudiée plus particulièrement chez la femme. 1873
- Fournier JA. De l’ataxie locomotrice d’origine syphilitique. 1875
- Fournier JA. Clinical lecture on syphilitic gummata. 1875
- Fournier JA. Syphilis et mariage [Syphilis and marriage]. 1880
- Fournier JA. Gangrene foudroyante de la verge. Semaine médicale. 1883;2: 345-347 [Translated: Dis Colon Rectum. 1988;31(12):984-988.] [Fournier gangrene]
- Fournier JA. Etude clinique de la gangrene foudroyante de la verge. Semaine médicale. 1884;4:69.
- Fournier JA. Traité de la syphilis. 1898
- Fournier JA. Tabès d’origine hérédo-syphilitique probable: fracture spontanée. 1886.
- Fournier JA. L’hérédité syphilitique: leçons cliniques. 1891 [Fournier sign] [Fournier tibia]
References
- Toodayan N. Jean Alfred Fournier (1832-1914): His contributions to dermatology. Our Dermatol Online; 2015.4-32
- Di Serafino M. A clinical case of Fournier’s gangrene: imaging ultrasound. J Ultrasound. 2014 Dec; 17(4): 303–306.
- Waugh MA. Alfred Fournier, 1832-1914. His influence on venereology. Br J Vener Dis. 1974 Jun; 50(3): 232–236.
- Morpurgo E, Galandiuk S. Fournier’s gangrene. Surg Clin North Am. 2002 Dec;82(6):1213-24.
- Levenson RB, Singh AK, Novelline RA. Fournier gangrene: role of imaging. Radiographics. 2008 Mar-Apr;28(2):519-28.
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