Henri-Alexandre Danlos (, ; 26 March 1844 – 12 September 1912) was a French physician and

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 ...

born in Paris. A group of inherited

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disorders, the Ehlers–Danlos syndromes, have been named after both him and Danish dermatologist

Edvard Ehlers Edvard Laurits Ehlers (, ; 26 March 1863 in Copenhagen – 7 May 1937) was a Danish dermatologist whose name was given to a group of rare genetic connective tissue disorders, known collectively as the Ehlers–Danlos syndromes (EDS), which w ...

(1863-1937). He studied medicine in Paris, and during the early part of his career performed research in the laboratory of

Charles-Adolphe Wurtz Charles Adolphe Wurtz (; 26 November 181710 May 1884) was an Alsatian French chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds, against the skeptical opinio ...

(1817-1884). In 1881, he became ''médecin des hôpitaux'', and four years later was ''chef de service'' at the

Hôpital Tenon Hôpital Tenon is a hospital located at ''4, rue de la Chine'' in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. It is part of the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) and the university hospital group AP-HP-Sorbonne University. It is particularl ...

in Paris. In 1895, he received an appointment at the

Hôpital Saint-Louis Hôpital Saint-Louis () is a hospital in Paris, France. It was built in 1611 by architect Claude Vellefaux at the request of Henry IV of France. It is part of the Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris hospital system, and it is located at 1 a ...

. Danlos was a pioneer in the use of

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for treatment of

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of the skin, and in 1901 with physicist

Eugène Bloch Eugène Bloch (10 June 1878 1944) was a French physicist and professor at the École Normale Supérieure, and at the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris. Early life and education Bloch was born on 10 June 1878 in Soultz-Haut-Rhin, ...

(1878-1944), he was the first to apply radium on

tuberculous Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...

skin lesions.Nuclear Medicine Radioactivity for Diagnosis and Therapy by Richard Zimmermann
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French dermatologists Physicians from Paris 1844 births 1912 deaths {{France-med-bio-stub