RAYER, Pierre François Olive (1793 – 1867)
1793 – 1867
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
1823 CE
#3881
Observations sur les maladies de l’appendice sus-sphenoïdal (glande pituitaire) du cerveau.
Includes description of pituitary obesity.
1826 CE–1827 CE
#3989
Traité théorique et pratique des maladies de la peau. 2 vols, and atlas.
In this summary of dermatological literature of the period Rayer first described adenoma sebaceum and xanthoma multiplex. He was the first to differentiate between acute and chronic eczema. The second edition, Paris, …
1837 CE
#5154
De la morve et du farcin chez l’homme.
In this treatise on glanders and farcy in man Rayer showed that glanders is contagious, but is not a form of tuberculosis. Rayer began the work with a thoroughly documented historical chapter. Digital facsimile of the…
1839 CE–1841 CE
#4208
Traité des maladies des reins. 3 vols, and atlas.
Rayer insisted on the exhaustive analysis of the urine as an aid to the diagnosis of lesions. He classified “albuminus nephritis” into six distinct forms and distinguished these from other forms of nephrit…
1850 CE
#5163
Inoculation du sang de rate.
Rayer inoculated sheep with blood of other sheep dead of anthrax. Microscopically he saw the anthrax bacillus in the blood of the inoculated sheep. Rayer was associated with Davaine, who later, in Bull. Acad. Mé…