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BRETONNEAU, Pierre Fidèle (1778 – 1862)

BRETONNEAU, Pierre Fidèle (1778 – 1862)

1778 – 1862

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Image source René Théodore Berthon · Pierre Bretonneau sur le site rues de Paris · Public domain

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1826 CE

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Des inflammations spéciales du tissu muqueux et en particulier de la diphthérite, ou inflammation pelliculaire.

BRETONNEAU, Pierre Fidèle (1778 – 1862)
BRETONNEAU, Pierre Fidèle (1778 – 1862)

Bretonneau showed that croup, malignant angina, and “scorbutic gangrene of the gums” were all the same disease, for which he suggested the term dipntheritis, later substituting “dipnthérite&rd…