Annales des Maladies de la Peau et de la Syphilis

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Annales des Maladies de la Peau et de la Syphilis
DisciplineInfectious diseases
LanguageFrench
Publication details
History1843-1852
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4Ann. Mal. Peau Syph.
Indexing
OCLC no.02257530

Annales des Maladies de la Peau et de la Syphilis was a French medical journal established in 1843 by Pierre Cazenave. In 1844 it published the first account of pemphigus foliaceus, written by Cazenave. Most issues were his works and its contents reflect a summary of his career in general.

The journal's final years saw papers describing several experiments on syphilis, including one where Cazenave claimed to have inoculated himself with the disease. Contributions also came from William Wallace, Philippe Ricord, and Vidal de Cassis.

The journal ceased publication in 1852.

Foundation[edit]

Annales des Maladies de la Peau et de la Syphilis was established in 1843 by the French dermatologist Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave, who had trained under Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert at the Hôpital Saint-Louis.[1] It focussed on skin diseases and syphilis.[1]

The second dermatological journal, it was released five years after Syphilidologie; both combined the specialties of dermatology and venereology.[2][3] At the time, Cazenave was professor of medicine at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, where he used his observations to publish in the journal.[4]

Contents[edit]

Cazenave wrote most of the text himself and its contents reflect a summary of his career in general.[1] Sometimes he used a different name as authorship.[5] He published the first account of pemphigus foliaceus in the journal in 1844.[1] In it he also wrote on lupus erythematosus.[6]

The early 1850s saw the appearance of several reports on "syphilization".[7] In his article titled "Observations. Syphilide tuberculeuse. Ecthyma syphilitique. Périostoses. Inoculation avec succès du symptôme secondaire," (1850-1851) Cazenave claimed to have inoculated himself with syphilis.[7] It received little attention unlike the experiments of Johann von Waller in "Du caractère contagieux de la syphilis secondaire," (1850-1851), which gave the account of infecting several children using pus from presumed cases of secondary syphilis.[7]

In a later issue, the 1830s experiments by Dublin's William Wallace and Lourcine's Henri Bouley appeared in an article titled "De la contagion, par voie d'inoculation artificielle, des accidents consécutifs de la syphilis".[7] A detailed account of how Bouley re-infected a woman with syphilis appeared in the November 1851 issue.[8][9][a]

The journal ceased publication in 1852.[2][12]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Hôpital Lourcine was specifically for prostitutes with syphylis. Children at the Hôpital des Enfants Malades were typically affected by tuberculosis.[10] The journal also features details of works by Philippe Ricord and Vidal de Cassis of the Hôpital du Midi, formerly the Hôpital des Vénériens.[7][11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Crissey, John Thorne; Parish, Lawrence C.; Holubar, Karl (2013). "The French Willanists". Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists. CRC Press. pp. 30–60. ISBN 978-1-84184-864-8.
  2. ^ a b Wallach, D.; Charansonnet, M. C. (1994). "The establishment of the first journals of dermatology and venereology in the nineteenth century". Histoire des Sciences Médicales. 29 (4): 359–364. ISSN 0440-8888. PMID 11640706.
  3. ^ Weisz, George (1994). "4. The development of medical specialization in nineteenth century Paris". In La Berge, A; Feingold, M (eds.). French Medical Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi B. V. pp. 166, 184. ISBN 90-5183-561-2.
  4. ^ "Alphée Cazenave (1795-1877)". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 185 (13): 1038. 28 September 1963. doi:10.1001/jama.1963.03060130056018.
  5. ^ Tilles, Gérard. A visitor's guide to l'Hôpital Saint-Louis, the wax moulages museum and the Henri-Feulard library (PDF). p. 77.
  6. ^ Bonamigo, Renan Rangel (2023). "Brief history of dermatology (including pandemics)". Dermatology in Public Health Environments: A Comprehensive Textbook. Springer. p. 2117. ISBN 978-3-031-13505-7.
  7. ^ a b c d e Dracobly, Alex (2003). "Ethics and Experimentation on Human Subjects in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France: The Story of the 1859 Syphilis Experiments". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 77 (2): 332–366. doi:10.1353/bhm.2003.0059. ISSN 0007-5140. JSTOR 44447741. PMID 12955963. S2CID 24642011.
  8. ^ Vidal, Auguste-Théodore (1854). A Treatise on Venereal Diseases. S.S. & W. Wood. pp. 34, 292.
  9. ^ Hill, Berkeley (1868). Syphilis and local contagious disorders. Walton. p. 29.
  10. ^ Stewart, Ferdinand Campbell (1843). The Hospitals and Surgeons of Paris: An Historical and Statistical Account of the Civil Hospitals of Paris : with Miscellaneous Information, and Biographical Notices of Some of the Most Eminent of the Living Parisian Surgeons. J. & H.G. Langley.
  11. ^ Proksch, J. K. (Johann Karl) (1889). Die Litteratur über die venerischen Krankheiten : von den ersten Schriften über Syphilis aus dem Ende des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zum Jahre 1889 (in German). Bonn: P. Hanstein. p. 275.
  12. ^ Gahan, Emanuel (1 May 1953). "First American journal of dermatology". A.M.A. Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology. 67 (5): 470–472. doi:10.1001/archderm.1953.01540050034007. ISSN 0096-5979. PMID 13050151.

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