Augustin Grisolle (10 February 1811 – 9 February 1869) was a French physician born in

Fréjus Fréjus (; ) is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 54,458. It neighbours Saint-Raphaël, effectively forming one urban agglomeration. The north of ...

. Grisolle was a professor at the Paris faculty of medicine and a member of the

Académie de Médecine An academy ( Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy ...

. He was the author of the two-volume "''Traité élémentaire et pratique de pathologie interne''" (1844). His name is associated with "Grisolle's sign", an obsolete sign once affiliated with smallpox. It involved feeling the presence of papules when the skin is stretched.

Selected writings

* ''Mémoire sur la pneumonie'', 1836 (Treatise on pneumonia). * ''Histoire des tumeurs phlegmoneuses des fosses iliaques'', 1839 (History of phlegmonous iliac fossa tumors). * ''Traité élémentaire et pratique de pathologie interne'', 1844 (Treatise on internal pathology); seventh edition 1857. * ''Discours prononcé au nom de la Faculté de médecine de Paris le 12 avril 1858 sur la tombe de M. Chomel'' 1858 (Speech on behalf of the Faculty of Medicine in Paris on April 12, 1858, at the grave of

Auguste François Chomel Auguste François Chomel (13 April 1788 in Paris – 9 April 1858 in Morsang-sur-Orge) was a French pathologist. Biography He was a professor at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris, and in 1827 succeeded René Laennec (1781–1826) as chair ...

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People from Var (department) 1811 births People from Fréjus 1869 deaths 19th-century French physicians {{France-med-bio-stub