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Nov 24, 1864 Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France Died on 02 Apr 1938 (aged 73)

French dermatologist

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About Raymond Sabouraud

  • Raymond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud (24 November 1864 – 4 February 1938) was a French physician born in Nantes.
  • He specialized in dermatology and mycology, and was also an accomplished painter and sculptor. He studied medicine in Nantes and Paris, and worked as a hospital interne at the Hôpital Saint-Louis under Ernest Besnier and at the Hôpital des Enfants-Assistés under Edouard Francis Kirmisson.
  • Afterwards he studied bacteriology with Pierre Paul Émile Roux at the Pasteur Institute.
  • In 1894 he received his doctorate, and he later served as chief of Jean Alfred Fournier's laboratory at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. In 1904, Sabouraud introduced radiological treatment against ringworm of the scalp.
  • He was well known for his knowledge of scalp diseases, and had a clinic which attracted patients from all over the world.He invented a method to select fungi with a medium of low pH and a rather high concentration of sugar.
  • This medium, called Sabouraud agar is named after him.With Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856–1938) and Henri Gougerot (1881–1955), he was editor of an eight-volume encyclopedia of dermatology titled "Nouvelle Pratique Dermatologique".
  • His "Manuel élémentaire de dermatologie topographique régionale" (1905), was translated into English and published as "Elementary manual of regional topographical dermatology" (1906), and several years later re-published as "A manual of regional topographical dermatology" (1912).

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