Philippe Gaucher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French dermatologist
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Place of Birth: Champlemy, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
About Philippe Gaucher
- Philippe Charles Ernest Gaucher () (July 26, 1854 – January 25, 1918) was a French dermatologist born in the department of Nièvre.
- He received his medical doctorate in 1882, and soon after headed a medical clinic at Necker Hospital.
- During the subsequent years he was an instructor at several hospital clinics in Paris.
- He taught classes on pathological anatomy, bacteriology and histology, as well as dermatology. In 1902 he succeeded Jean Alfred Fournier (1832–1914) as the university chair of dermatology and syphilography.
- Gaucher was also founder of a journal on venereal disease called Annales des Maladies Vénériennes.He is remembered for providing a description of a disorder that was to become known as Gaucher's disease.
- In 1882 while still a student, he discovered the disease in a 32-year-old woman who had an enlarged spleen.
- At the time, Gaucher thought it to be a form of splenetic cancer, and published his findings in his doctorate thesis, titled De l'epithelioma primitif de la rate, hypertrophie idiopathique de la rate sans leucemie.
- However, it was not until 1965 that the true biochemical nature of Gaucher's disease was understood.
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