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Joseph Thiers
French clinician, born 1885, Bastia, Corsica.
Associated eponyms:
Achard-Thiers syndrome
A disorder mainly affecting postmenopausal women, marked by diabetes mellitus and hirsutims, deep masculine voice, facial hypertrichosis, obesity, hypertrophy of the clitoris, and hypoplasia or adenoma of the adrenal cortex.
Biography:
Joseph Thiers was born in Bastia, capital of Haute-Corse département, on the northeastern coast of Corsica. After attending schools in Bastia and Marseille, he studied medicine in Paris, where he was trained by some of the luminaries of the day, including Paul Georges Dielafoy (1839-1911), Pierre Marie (1854-1940) and Emile Charles Achard (1860-1944). His main interest was neurology, and for a period he was president of the French Neurological Society.
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