Jean-Antoine Villemin
Jean-Antoine Villemin (January 28, 1827 – October 6, 1892) was a French
infectious disease
.
Biography
Villemin was born in the department of Vosges, and studied medicine at the military medical school at Strasbourg, qualifying as an army doctor in 1853. Afterwards he practiced medicine at the military hospital of Val-de-Grâce in Paris. In 1874 he became a member of the French Académie Nationale de Médecine, and was its vice-president in 1891.
In 1865 Villemin proved that tuberculosis was an infectious disease by
Prix Leconte was posthumously awarded to Villemin (and its ₣50,000 presented to his heirs) in 1892 in recognition of his work.[2]
References
- ^ Villemin, J.A. (1865). "Cause et nature de la tuberculose" [Cause and nature of tuberculosis]. Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale de Médecine (in French). 31: 211–216.
- See also: Villemin, J.-A. (1868). Etudes sur la tuberculose: preuves rationnelles et expérimentales de sa spécificité et de son inoculabilité [Studies of tuberculosis: rational and experimental evidence of its specificity and inoculability] (in French). Paris, France: J.-B. Baillière et fils.
- ^ Shrady, George Frederick; Stedman, Thomas Lathrop (February 4, 1893). "Posthumous Honors to Villemin". Medical Record. 43 (5): 149. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- Biography of Jean-Antoine Villemin (translated from French)
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