Philippe Gaucher
Philippe Charles Ernest Gaucher (dermatologist born in the department of Nièvre.
He received his medical doctorate in 1882, and soon after headed a medical clinic at
. In 1902 he succeededvenereal disease called Annales des Maladies Vénériennes.[citation needed
]
He is remembered for providing a description of a disorder that was to become known as
biochemical
nature of Gaucher's disease was understood.
References
- ^ Gaucher PCE. De l’épithélioma primitif de la râte: hypertrophie idiopathique de la râte sans leucémie. Thesis (Faculté de Médecine), Paris 1882
- Historia de la Medicina (translated biography)