Sur une forme spéciale de cyanose s’accompagnant d’hyperglobulie excessive et persistante.

Vaquez first described polycythemia vera (erythremia). Osler’s paper on the subject (No. 3073) made it generally known in the English-speaking world, and the condition has since been named “Vaquez–Osler disease”. For translation, see Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., 1945, p. 497.