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Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin
French dermatologist, born February 20, 1807, Saint-Brice-sous-Bois, Département seine et Oise; died December 14, 1878, Paris.
Associated eponyms:
Alibert-Bazin syndrome
Historic term for mycosis fungoides. A rare, chronic and fatal disease of the reticuloendothelial system.
Bazin's disease
Chronic skin disease characterized by hard cutaneous nodules that break down to form indolent necrotic ulcers leaving atrophic, pigmented scars.
Biography:
Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin, the son and grandson of physicians, was born in the small village of Saint-Brice-sous-Bois near Paris. He studied in Paris, where he did his first hospital service. Through concours he won a gold medal in 1832, and in 1834 was conferred doctor or medicine with a treatise on diseases of the lungs in so-called essential forms of fever.
The following time, however, was not his lucky period. His applications for professorships were turned down, and his founding of medical journals Institut médical, 1839; and Repertoire des études médicales, went wrong.
Following emplyment at several hospitals, among them Hôpital de Lourcine and Saint-Antoine, Bazin in 1847 came to Hôpital Saint-Louis and began concerning himself with dermatology. This was a famous school of dermatology, where Laurent-Théodore Biett (1781-1840) and jean-Louis Alibert (1768-1837) had recently worked, and where Marie-Guillaume-Alphonse Devergie (1798-1879), Camille-Melchior Gibert (1797-1866) and Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave (1795-1877) where his contempraries. Bazin remained here for the rest of his professional life.
In 1850 his reputation was established by his recognition with Alfred Hardy (1811-1893) of the same fungis causing tinea capitis as well as affecting the beard and body.
«My lectures on the parasitic infections, published two years ago, have been the sensation of the medical world». The man who said this in 1860 did not suffer from exaggerated modesty, but Antoine Bazin was well liked by both his students and patients. He was always abrasive and sarcastic in dealing with his collegaues, with whom he was in continuous conflict.
Bazin first investigated scabies, then acne and necroticans. He later devoted himself particularly to parasitary diseases, and established that several disturbances were such diseases. We owe him the identification of ertyhema induratum, a form of skin tuberculsosis. He also established a museum at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. Bazin died suddenly of a pulmonary edema at the age of 71.
Bibliography:
- Leçons sur les affections parasitaires. 1857.
- Leçons sur la syphilis et les syphilides. 1857.
- Lecons théorique et cliniques sur les affections cutanée de nature arthritique et dartreuse, considerées en ellemêmes et dans leurs rapports avec les éruptions, scrofuleuses, parasitaires et syphilitiques.
Paris, A. Delahaye, 1860.
- Ernest Besnier:
Éloge de P. A. E. Bazin lu à la Société médicale des hôpitaux de Paris 27. Dec. 1878.
Union médicale, Paris, 1878, 153.
- L. Brodier, in Paris médical, 1929, 19.
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