Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Phillipe Gaucher

  • Phillipe Gaucher (1854-1918)

    In the days when syphilis was rampant in Europe and diagnostic modalities few, many unrelated medical conditions were erroneously attributed to it. There was, for example, the distinguished professor of syphilology and dermatology at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine and the University of Paris, who “aggressively promoted” the idea that poliomyelitis and appendicitis were due to syphilis.…