Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave (5 May 1795 – 9 April 1877) was a French

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who practiced medicine at the

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. In 1823 he was appointed interne to the hospitals of Paris, and in 1835 became ''professor agrégé'' to the medical faculty. At

, Cazenave was a student of

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, a physician credited for introducing into French medicine an anatomical approach for analysis of skin disorders. This analytical method was first developed by two English physicians;

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and

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. In 1828, with

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, he published a book based on Biett's lectures and observations, titled ''Abregé pratique des maladies de la peau''. The compilation was to become a highly influential dermatological work, being translated into a number of different languages. From 1844 until 1852, Cazenave was editor of ''Annales des Maladies de la Peau et de la Syphilis'', a journal dedicated to scientific dermatology. Cazenave is credited with coining the term ''lupus érythémateux'' (

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). In 1844 he first described a rare dermatological condition known as

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.JAMA. 1913;61(2):102-105. doi:10.1001/jama.1913.04350020028012.
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Selected writings

* ''Abrégé pratique des maladies de la peau d'après les auteurs les plus estimés, et surtout d'après les documents uisés dans les Leçons cliniques de M. Biett'', with Henry Edward Schedel (1828, 1833, 1838, 1847)

* ''Traité des syphilides ou maladies vénériennes de la peau, précédé de considérations sur la syphilis etc'' (1843); German translation- 1844. * ''Lecons sur les maladies de la peau profesés à l’École de médecine de Paris en 1841-44'' (1845). * ''Leçons sur les maladies de la peau'' (1856).

References

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External links

The History of Lupus Erythematosus

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