Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave

Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave (1795-1877)

Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave (1795 – 1877) was a French dermatologist who practiced medicine at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris.

In 1823 he was appointed interne to the hospitals of Paris, and in 1835 became professor agrégé to the medical faculty. Cazenave was a student of Laurent-Théodore Biett, a physician who introduced into France an anatomical approach for analysis of skin disorders. This analytical method was first developed by two English physicians; Robert Willan and Thomas Bateman.

In 1828 with Henri Édouard Schedel, he published a work based on Biett's lectures and observations titled Abregé pratique des maladies de la peau. This compilation was to become a highly influential text regarding dermatology in the mid-19th century.

From 1844 until 1852, Cazenave was editor of Annales des Maladies de la Peau et de la Syphilis, which was a journal dedicated to scientific dermatology.

He is credited with coining the term "lupus erythematosus", which he derived from Biett's symptomatic descriptions of the disease. In 1844 he described pemphigus foliaceus as a special type of pemphigus.

Selected writings

• Abrégé pratique des maladies de la peau d'après les auteurs les plus estimés, et surtout d'après les documents uisés dans les Leçons cliniques de M. Biett, with Henry Edward Schedel (1828, 1833, 1838, 1847) Full texts at Google Books
• Traité des syphilides ou maladies vénériennes de la peau, précédé de considérations sur la syphilis etc (1843); German translation- 1844.
• Lecons sur les maladies de la peau profesés à l’École de médecine de Paris en 1841-44 (1845)
• Leçons sur les maladies de la peau (1856)

References

• Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave @ Who Named It

External links

• The History of Lupus Erythematosus
• Pemphigus and Autoimmune Disease