Marcel Bessis
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Marcel Claude Bessis (15 November 1917 – 28 March 1994) was a French physician known for research on blood cells.[1][2][3]
Bessis was born in
Second World War, he served as a military physician and pioneered the technique of exchange transfusion to treat war injuries.[3][5] He graduated with a medical degree in 1944.[5] Later he studied exchange transfusion as a treatment for hemolytic disease of the newborn, uremia and acute leukemia. He was a frequent collaborator of Jean Bernard.[3]
Bessis used
discocyte.[1] Bessis wrote that "The doctor who knows how to see can recognize in a red cell the subtle alteration of a gene transmitted from time immemorial on the banks of the Congo River or the marks of aggressions of daily life. This form speaks a difficult language but one that can be entirely deciphered."[3]
From 1946 to 1980, Bessis was editor-in-chief of the
In 1967, Bessis was named a knight of the
Legion d'Honneur.[1] He was also a commander of the Ordre national du Mérite and an officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.[5] He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1979[4] and the Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique in 1991.[7] He was an honorary president of the Société française d'hématologie.[5]
Bessis married Claude Desserteaux in 1952; the couple raised three children.[2] Bessis died in Paris on 28 March 1994.[2]
Bibliography
Some of Bessis's published works include:[5]
- La maladie hémolytique du nouveau-né et la pathologie de l'enfant liée à l'iso-immunisation de la mère (1947)
- Cytologie sanguine normale et pathologique (1948)
- Traité de cytologie sanguine (English translation, 1956)
- Traité de microscopie : instruments et techniques (with Albert Policard and Marcel Locquin, 1957)
- Le sang et la transfusion sanguine (1958)
- Hématologie clinique (with Jean Bernard, 1958)
- Abrégé d'hématologie (with Jean Bernard, 1963)
- Éléments de pathologie cellulaire (with Albert Policard, 1969)
- Les cellules du sang normal et pathologique (1972; English translation published in 1973)
- Corpuscules : essai sur la forme de globules rouges humains (1976)
- Réinterprétation des frottis sanguins (1976)
References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8121-0961-0 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ New York Times. 18 April 1994.
- ^ PMID 8846044.
- ^ Académie des sciences (in French). Archivedfrom the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Danesi, Hervé; Delmas, Bruno (2 January 2013). "Bessis, Marcel Claude". Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques (in French). Archived from the original on 14 June 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2022.
- PMID 17586253.
- ^ a b "Marcel BESSIS – Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique". Académie royale de Médecine de Belgique (in French). Archived from the original on 23 May 2013.
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