Paul Camille Hippolyte Brouardel (13 February 1837, Saint-Quentin, Aisne

Saint-Quentin, Aisne

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 – 23 July 1906) was a French pathologist.

In 1858 he became an externe at the Hôpital Cochin in Paris

Paris

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, and in 1865 earned his medical doctorate. In 1873 he became director of medical services at the Hôpital Saint-Antoine and la Pitié

Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital

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. In 1879 he became a professor of forensics

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 at the Faculté de Médecine de Paris, and succeeded Auguste Ambroise Tardieu

Auguste Ambroise Tardieu

Auguste Ambroise Tardieu was a French medical doctor and the pre-eminent forensic medical scientist of the mid-19th century.Tardieu's specialties were forensic medicine and toxicology...

 (1818–1879) as doyen

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 of French forensic medicine. From 1884 to 1904 he was chair of the Consultative Committee of Hygiene

Hygiene

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, and in 1899 was elected president of the French Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AFAS).

Brouardel was a leading authority of French forensic medicine, and was also a passionate advocate concerning all aspects of public health and hygiene. He was at the forefront of issues such as food safety

Food safety

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, tuberculosis

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, venereal disease, child abuse

Child abuse

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, alcoholism

Alcoholism

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 and public decency. Brouardel was a major influence on the career of neurologist

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 Georges Gilles de la Tourette

Georges Gilles de la Tourette

Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette was a French neurologist who is the eponym of Tourette syndrome, a neurological condition...

(1857-1904).

Written works

• De la tuberculisation des organes génitaux de la femme , thèse de médecine, 1865
• Compte rendu des travaux de la Société anatomique de Paris, 1865
• De l'exercice et de l'enseignement de la médecine, 1873
• Eloge de M. Félix Bricheteau, lu à la Société anatomique, 1874
• Accidents causés par les substances alimentaires d'origine animale contenant des alcaloïdes toxiques, 1889
• Recherches expérimentales sur la mort par submersion brusque, 1889
• La Vaccination Obligatoire et la Prophylaxis de la Variole Discours à l'Académie de médecine, 1891
• Rôle du médecin dans les cas où la communication d'une maladie vénérienne est invoquée pour obtenir la séparation de corps ou le divorce, 1900
• Accidents causés par l'addition des antiseptiques aux aliments, 1903
• La nouvelle Loi sur la Santé Publique, 1904
• , 1906
• Les attentats aux moeurs, 1906