Étienne Pariset (5 August 1770, in

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– 3 July 1847, in Paris) was a French physician and psychiatrist. In 1805 he received his medical doctorate in Paris with the thesis ''Dissertation sur les hémorrhagies utérines'' ("Dissertation on uterine hemorrhages"). In 1814 he joined

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as a physician, and in 1819 he was named head of department for mental illness at the hospital. In 1822 he was appointed perpetual secretary at the Académie Nationale de Médecine, a position he maintained up until his death. From January 1826, he was associated with the Salpêtrière Hospital, where he succeeded

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as physician for the insane.PARISET Etienne (1770-1847)
Amies et Passionés du Père-Lachaise
Histoire de la psychiatrie en France In 1819–22 he distinguished himself in his work combatting

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in Spain, and from 1828 onward he conducted research of infectious diseases in Syria and Egypt. In the latter country, he became good friends with archaeologist Jean-François Champollion. In 1819 he became part of the ''Commission pour l'amélioration du sort des aliénés'' (Commission for improving the lot of the insane), whose members included Esquirol,

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and Antoine-Athanase Royer-Collard. In 1845 he was a founding member of the Société Protectrice des Animaux (SPA), serving as its first president up until his death in 1847.

Selected works

* ''Observations sur la fièvre jaune faites à Cadix en 1819'', 1820 – Observations on yellow fever, made in

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, in 1819. * ''Histoire médicale de la fièvre jaune observée en Espagne et particulièrement en Catalogne dans l'année 1821'', 1823 – Medical history of yellow fever seen in Spain and particularly in

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in 1821. * ''Mémoire sur les causes de la peste et sur les moyens de la détruire'', 1831 – On the causes of the plague, and how to destroy it. * ''Histoire des membres de l'Académie royale de médecine; ou, Recueil des éloges lus dans les séances publiques'', 1845 – History on members of the Royal Academy of Medicine.Most widely held works about Etienne Pariset
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pariset, Étienne 1770 births 1847 deaths People from Vosges (department) 19th-century French physicians French psychiatrists