ALIBERT, Jean Louis Marc (1768 – 1837)

1806 CE

#3986

Description des maladies de la peau observées à l’hôpital Saint Louis.

The largest and most spectacular of the early classics of dermatology, with hand-colored illustrations unsurpassed for their quality of execution. The illustrations are also the first on the subject in a French book. …

1810 CE–1818 CE

#3987

Précis théorique et pratique sur les maladies de la peau. 2 vols.

1816 CE

#4023

Note sur la keloide.

First accurate description of keloid (“Alibert’s keloid”), although it was mentioned by Retz in 1790.

1817 CE

#12746

Nosologie naturelle, ou les maladies du corps humain distribuées par familles. Tome premier. (All published.)

This unfinished work with 22 spectacular plates included some full body images of patients, and unlike other illustrated works by Alibert, it concerned more than skin diseases. Vol. 2 was never published but a second,…

1825 CE

#4024

Description des maladies de la peau. 2me. édition. 2 vols.

Contains (vol. 2, p. 214) first description of sycosis barbae (“Alibert’s mentagra”).

1829 CE

#5291

Sur la pyrophlyctide endémique, ou pustule d’Aleppo.

Important description of “Aleppo boil”, furunculosis orientalis.

1832 CE

#3990.1

Monographie des dermatoses.

This includes the first published illustration of Alibert’s famous “family tree” for the classification of skin diseases, a concept which Alibert borrowed freely from Torti (No. 5231). This classific…