Gaspard Laurent Bayle (18 August 1774,
Le Vernet, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence – 1816) was a French
physician.
He studied medicine under
Jean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755–1821), and was a colleague to
René Laennec (1781–1826). Beginning in 1805 he practiced medicine at the
Hôpital de la Charité in
Paris. He was an uncle to physician
Antoine Laurent Bayle
Antoine Laurent Jessé Bayle (13 January 1799 – 29 March 1858) was a French physician known for first describing paralytic dementia. He was born in Le Vernet, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, and was a nephew to pathologist Gaspard Laurent Bayle (1774†...
(1799–1859).
Bayle is remembered for his extensive work in
pathological anatomy, making contributions in research of
cancer and
tuberculosis. As the result of 900
post-mortem investigations, he described six different types of tuberculosis — ulcerous
phthisis, calculous phthisis, cancerous phthisis, tubercular phthisis, glandular phthisis and phthisis with
melanosis.
His best known written effort was the 1810 ''Recherches sur la phthisie pulmonaire'' (Research of pulmonary tuberculosis). He also penned a treatise on cancerous diseases that was published posthumously (1833) by his nephew, Antoine Laurent Bayle.
References
Heirs of HippocratesGaspard Laurent Bayle
(French biography on Gaspard Laurent Bayle, translated by Google)
1774 births
1816 deaths
People from Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
French pathologists
19th-century French physicians
18th-century French physicians
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