Henri Gougerot

Henri Gougerot (July 2, 1881 - 1955) was a French dermatologist born in the town of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine. In 1908 he earned his doctorate from the University of Paris, and shortly afterwards was a professor agrégé at the university. In 1928 he was appointed to the chair of dermatology and became chief physician at the Hôpital St. Louis. For his achievements during World War I, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre.

Gougerot is known for his work concerning dermatological disorders. In 1909 he was the first to describe hemisporosis (Hemispora stellata). Along with Charles Lucien de Beurmann (1851-1923), he did extensive research in fungal diseases, especially sporotrichosis.

In 1925 he described three separate cases of atrophy of the salivary glands accompanied with dryness of the eyes, mouth and vagina. These symptoms became known in France as "Gougerot's disease". Several years later, Swedish ophthalmologist Henrik Sjögren (1899-1986} wrote a detailed and comprehensive report of the disease in Zur Kenntnis der keratoconjunctivitis sicca. Today this autoimmune disease is known as Sjögren's syndrome, however it is sometimes referred to as Gougerot-Sjögren syndrome.

Gougerot was a prolific writer of over 2500 items. He was the publisher of Archives dermato-syphiligraphiques de la clinique de l’hôpital Saint-Louis, and with Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856-1938) and Raymond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud (1864-1938), editor of Nouvelle Pratique Dermatologique; an 8-volume text on dermatology.

Associated eponym:
 * Gougerot's trilogy : A disease with three separate dermatological symptoms that usually affect the thighs and legs. Described by Gougerot in his treatise, Trisymptome atypique.

Reference:
Who Named It?; Henri Gougerot