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Louis Frédéric Wickham
French internist and pathologist, born February 28, 1861, Paris; died October 14, 1913, Mesnil-le-Roi, département Seine-et-Oise.
Associated eponyms:
Wickham's striae
Characteristic, fine, white or grey lines or dots seen on the top of the pruritic papular rash of lichen planus.
Biography:
Louis Frédéric Wickham received his education at Paris and obtained his doctorate in 1890. He then turned to the study of dermatology, worked several years at the Hôpital Saint-Louis, and in 1897 became Médecin at the Hôpital Saint Lazare. From 1905 he concerned himself with radium research, and occasioned the establishment of the Laboratoire Biologique du Radium. His work concerns the treatment of angiomas, celoids, carcinomas of the skin, and other dermatoses, and on the effect of radium on visceral carcinoses. In 1888 he was commissioned to report on the methods of teaching dermatology in England. He designed a multibladed knife for scarification treatment of lupus vulgaris.
We thank Søren Nørby, Denmark, for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- Contribution à l’étude des psorospermoses cutanées et de certaines formes de cancer, maladie de la peau dite maladie de Paget. Paris, 1890.
Referring to Paget's extramammary disease. See under Sir James Paget, British surgeon and physiologist, 1814-1899.
- Traité de radiumthérapie.
With Paul Degrais (born 1874). Paris, 1909; 2nd edition, 1912.
- Le radium. With Paul Degrais (born 1874). Actual méd., Paris, 1912.
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