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François Henri Hallopeau (17 January 1842,
Paris
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– 20 March 1919, Paris) was a French
dermatologist
Dermatology is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin.''Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.'' Random House, Inc. 2001. Page 537. . It is a speciality with both medical and surgical aspects. A dermatologist is a specialist medi ...
. He studied medicine under
Alfred Vulpian
Edmé Félix Alfred Vulpian (5 January 1826 – 18 May 1887) was a French physician and neurologist. He was the co-discoverer of Vulpian-Bernhardt spinal muscular atrophy and the Vulpian-Heidenhain-Sherrington phenomenon.
Vulpian was born in Pa ...
and
Sigismond Jaccoud
Sigismond Jaccoud (20 November 1830 – 26 April 1913) was a Swiss physician.
Sigismond Jaccoud was born in 1830 in Geneva, where he went to school and was educated in music and the science of literature. In 1849 he went to Paris to study medic ...
. He co-founded and was secretary general of the ''Société Française de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie''. He became a member of the ''
Académie de Médecine
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...
'' in 1893.
He coined the medical term ''
trichotillomania
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'' in 1889.
He also coined the word ''antibiotique'' in 1871 to describe a substance opposed to the development of life.
Selman Waksman
Selman Abraham Waksman (July 22, 1888 – August 16, 1973) was a Russian-born American inventor, biochemist and microbiologist, whose research into the decomposition of organisms that live in soil enabled the discovery of streptomycin and severa ...
was later credited with coining the word ''antibiotic'' to describe such compounds that were derived from other living organisms, such as
penicillin
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.
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Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (also known as Hallopeau-Siemens syndrome)
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Pemphigus vegetans of Hallopeau
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Timeline of tuberous sclerosis
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1842 births
1919 deaths
French dermatologists
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