Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Medical School of Angers

  • Charles-Michel Billard, an overlooked pediatric pioneer

    Stanford ShulmanChicago, Illinois Introduction During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries medicine transitioned into a more science-based discipline. This was primarily the result of gross pathology contributions of Giovanni Morgagni (1682-1772) of Padua and the later efforts of French physicians Jean Corvisart (1755-1821), F.X. Bichat (1771-1802), Rene Laennec (1781-1826), (Fig. 1) and Pierre Louis…