Jean-Louis Alibert

Biography

• Born 2 May 1768, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, France
• Membre de l’Académie nationale de médecine
• Died 4 November 1837, Paris, France

Medical Eponyms

Alibert-Bazin syndrome (1825, 1858)

Historic term for mycosis fungoides. non-Hodgkin’s, cutaneous peripheral T-cell lymphoma, frequently also affecting the lymph nodes and viscera. Three stages: Premycoid; infiltrative and tumour stage. Characteristic symptoms are eczematoid eruption, psoriasis, dermatitis exfoliativa, and parapsoriasis; later circinate and gyrate elevated plaques of various sizes.

Alibert described Pian Fungoides, later mycosis (mushroom like) [1825 Tome II: 161-164]

Alibert disease [Alibert keloid, False keloid] (1816)

In 1816 – Alibert provided the first accurate description of keloid, although it had been previously described by Noël Retz (1758-1810) in 1790.

Thomas Addison (1793 – 1860) described two forms of keloid in 1849: ‘false keloid’ as described by Alibert; and ‘true keloid’ later termed morphea, or ‘Addison’s keloid‘.

Alibert mentagra [Dartre pustulose mentagre, Sycosis barbae] (1825)

Sycosis barbae is a chronic, recalcitrant folliculitis with inflammation of the surrounding skin area. Sycosis occurs in adult males and is most often precipitated by shaving trauma. ALibert describes symptoms of pruritus and a burning sensation, followed by the emergence of painful small pustules each pierced by a hair. When chronic the lesions develop a crust and undergo granulomatous change. Alibert Tome I: 201-203

Major Publications

• Alibert J-L. Traité des pertes de sang chez les femmes enceintes. [Volume II] 1800
• Alibert J-L. Dissertation sur les fièvres pernicieuses, ou ataxiques intermittentes. 1801 [3e 1804]
• Alibert J-L. Description des maladies de la peau observées à l’hôpital Saint-Louis, et exposition des meilleures méthodes suivies pour leur traitement. 1806 [Alibert-Bazin syndrome]
• Alibert J. Note sur la kéloïde. Journal universel des sciences médicales, 1816; 2: 207-216 [Alibert disease]
• Alibert J-L. Nouveaux élémens de thérapeutique et de matière médicale. [Tome II] 1814
• Alibert J-L. Description des maladies de la peau. [Tome II] 1825 [Sycosis barbae Tome I: 201-203] [Pian fungoides Tome II: 161-164]
• Alibert J-L. Physiologie des passions: ou, Nouvelle doctrine des sentimens moraux. [Tome II] 1826
• Alibert J-L. Note sur la pyrophlyctide endémiqie ou pustul d’Alep. Revue médicale française et étrangère, 1829; 3: 62-68.
• Alibert J-L. Monographie des dermatoses, ou, Précis théorique et pratique des maladies de la peau. 1832 [Mycosis fungoides 600-602]

References

• Bibliography. Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert (1768 – 1837). World Cat Identities
• Addison T. On the keloid of Alibert, and on true keloid. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, 1854; 37: 27-47.
• Bazin E. Leçons théoriques et cliniques sur les affections cutanées artificielles. 1862 [Alibert-Bazin syndrom 372-279]
• Auspitz H. Ein Fall von Granuloma fungoides (Mykosis fungoides Alibert). Vierteljahresschrift für Dermatologie und Syphilis. 1885, 17: 123-143.
• Portrait: ALIBERT, Jean Louis (1768-1837). BIU Santé — Médecine
• Karamanou M, Psaltopoulou T, Tsoucalas G, Androutsos G. Baron Jean-Louis Alibert (1768-1837) and the first description of mycosis fungoides. J BUON. 2014 Apr-Jun;19(2):585-8.