Georges-Fernand-Isidor Widal (March 9, 1862 in Dellys, Algeria – January 14, 1929 in Paris ) was a

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physician. From 1886 to 1888 he devoted himself to public demonstrations of the researches of the faculty of pathological anatomy, and during the 2 years following was in charge of a course in bacteriology in the laboratory of Professor Victor André Cornil (1837–1908). In 1895 he was appointed visiting physician to the

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s of Paris, and in 1904 became an

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in the

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. In 1905 he became a physician to the Hôpital Cochin, and was in charge of the medical clinics at the same institution. During the WWI, he developed a vaccine against typhoid fever which reduced the spread of this disease in French army and more generally

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. Widal was the author of a remarkable series of essays on infectious diseases, erysipelas, diseases of the heart, liver, nervous system, etc., besides being a prolific contributor to various

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s and

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s. His name is associated with the Widal test, a diagnostic test for typhoid fever, and with

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Georges Hayem Georges Hayem (25 November 1841 – 28 August 1933) was a physician and hematologist born in Paris. He studied medicine in Paris, and later became a professor of therapy and materia medica. Beginning in 1878 he practiced medicine at the Hôpita ...

(1841–1933), he described acquired haemolytic anaemia, a disease that was historically referred to as "Hayem–Widal syndrome".

Literary works

* ''Etude sur l'infection puerpérale'', 1889. * ''La cure de déchloruration dans le mal de Bright'', 1906. * ''Maladies des veines et des lymphatiques'', 1911. * ''Nouveau traité de médicine'', 22 Vols., 1923 (with

Georges Henri Roger Georges Henri Roger (4 June 1860 – 19 April 1946) was a French physiologist born in Paris. He studied medicine in Paris, where he later became a professor of experimental pathology and physiology. In 1930 he was appointed dean of the medical fac ...

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. Sculptor of Widal bust. 20th-century French physicians Members of the French Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Burials at Montmartre Cemetery 1862 births 1929 deaths People from Dellys 19th-century French physicians People of French Algeria {{France-med-bio-stub