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Leonard Marie Lucien Jacquet
French dermatologist, born October 30, 1860, Sauviat, département Haute-Vienne; died December 20, 1914, Royan.
Associated eponyms:
Christ-Siemens-Touraine syndrome
A rare, congenital development defect of the ectoderm and mesoderm structures in which absence of sweat glands impairs heart regulation and causes heat intolerance.
Jacquet's syndrome
Papulo-lenticular erythema of the napkin area.
Vidal-Jacquet syndrome
Blenhorragic rheumatism associated with keratoris palmaris et plantaris.
Biography:
Leonard Marie Lucien Jacquet first attended the medical school in Limoges and became interne in Paris in 1883. Among his teachers were Louis-Arthur Sevestre (1843-1907), Ernest Henri Besnier (1831-1909), and Georges Maurice Debove (1845-1920). He obtained his doctorate in 1888, became médecin des hôpitaux 1896 and from 1903 worked in the Hôpital Saint-Antoine. He chose dermatology and syphilology as his speciality and concerned himself with pruritus, the pathogenesis of pruriginous eruptions and the alopecia areata. With his ”bio-kinetic” treatment he gave new ways in the treatment of certain dermatoses.
Bibliography:
- Précis élémentaire de dermatologie.
With Louis Anne Jean Brocq. Paris, 1893-1895.
- Pratique dermatologique.
With Ernst Henri Besnier and Louis Anne Jean Brocq. Paris, 1900.
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