Alfred Louis Philippe Hardy (30 November 1811,

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– 23 January 1893, Paris) was a French

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at the

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. In 1847 he obtained his

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at the faculty of medicine in Paris, and four years later, succeeded Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol as ''chef de service'' at the

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. For several years he held classes in dermatology at the hospital. In 1867 he succeeded

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as chair of internal pathology at the university, and in 1876 attained the chair of clinical medicine at Hôpital Necker.Alfred Louis Philippe Hardy (1811-1893)
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(section for therapy). In 1889 he served as president of the First International Congress of Dermatology and Syphilography.

Published works

In 1868 he publishe
"''Clinique photographique de l'Hôpital Saint-Louis''"
one of the first books on dermatology to use photography (49 original photographs, some of which were hand colored). * ''Traité élémentaire de pathologie interne'' (with Jules Béhier) 3 volumes, 1846–55 – Elementary treatise on internal pathology. * ''Leçons sur les maladies de la peau professés a l'hôpital St Louis'', 1860 – Lessons on diseases of the skin at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. * ''Leçons sur les maladies dartreuses professées à l'hôpital Saint-Louis'', 1862 – Lessons on dartrous diseases taught at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. * ''Leçons sur la scrofule et les scrofulides et sur la syphilis et les syphilides professées à l'hôpital Saint-Louis'', 1864 – Lessons on scrofula, scrofulides,

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and syphilides taught at the Hôpital Saint-Louis.IDREF.fr
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"The dartrous diathesis, or eczema and its allied affections"
: an English translation of Hardy's "''Leçons sur les maladies dartreuses''" by Henry G. Piffard (1868).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hardy, Alfred 1811 births 1893 deaths Scientists from Paris University of Paris faculty French dermatologists