Henri Feulard (1858–1897) was a French dermatologist.

Life

Henri Feulard was born in Paris on 20 May 1858. He trained as a physician in the hospitals of Paris, interning at the

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, which at the time specialized in

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and

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. In 1886, he became Professor

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's Chief of Clinic (a position in French teaching hospitals that meant being day-to-day head of a department nominally run by a professor), and helped found the dermatological library in the Hôpital Saint-Louis. He was appointed librarian in 1890, and the library was later renamed ''Bibliothèque Henri-Feulard – Centre de documentation dermatologique''. Feulard was an organizer and the secretary of the first International Congress of Dermatology, held in Paris in August 1889. He also attended the second International Congress of Dermatology, in Vienna (1892), and the third, in London (1896). He published extensively on clinical dermatology, primarily in the ''Annales de Dermatologie et de Syphiligraphie'', of which he became editor-in-chief in 1890. From 1892 Feulard also worked at the infirmary of the

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, a women's prison where monthly medical inspections of registered prostitutes were carried out.

Death

On 4 May 1897 Dr Feulard, his wife, their ten-year-old daughter Germaine, and their maid Ernestine Moreau, attended the

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, a high-class annual charity bazaar in Paris. They were present when the building caught fire. The family became separated in the stampede. Dr Feulard re-entered the building in an attempt to save his daughter, but both perished, as did Ernestine Moreau. Mrs Feulard suffered burn injuries but survived. Dr Feulard was buried together with his daughter in

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, after a service in Notre-Dame-de-Lorette."Les obsèques particulières", '' Le Matin''
9 May 1897
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Publications

*''L'Hôpital Laënnec, ancien hospice des incurables (1634-1884)'', 1884. *''Histoire de la fondation de l'hôpital Saint-Louis'', 1885. *''Teignes et teigneux: histoire médicale, hygiène publique'', 1886. *''Fistule ombilicale et cancer de l'estomac'', 1887. *''Procès-verbaux du congrès international de dermatologie'', 1889. *''Musée de l'Hôpital Saint Louis: catalogue des moulages coloriés'', 1889. *''Les hôpitaux de Paris'', 1893. *''Iconographie des maladies cutanées et syphylitiques'', 1895. With Ernest Besnier.

Commemoration

In 1946 the rue Henri Feulard, in the

10th arrondissement of Paris The 10th arrondissement of Paris (''Xe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as ''dixième'' ("10th arrondissement of Paris" = "dixième arrondisseme ...

, was named in his memory.

References

External links

Biography
on the website of the Société Française d'Histoire de la Dermatologie. {{DEFAULTSORT:Feulard, Henri French medical historians French dermatologists Accidental deaths in France Deaths from fire 1858 births 1897 deaths French male writers 19th-century French historians 19th-century male writers 19th-century French physicians Writers from Paris