Camille-Melchior Gibert
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Camille-Melchior Gibert (1797-1866) was a French dermatologist who was a native of Paris. He was an intern to Laurent-Théodore Biett (1781-1840), and later a physician at the Hôpital St-Louis in Paris.
Gibert is remembered for providing the first accurate description of a papulosquamous skin disorder that he named pityriasis rosea. Historically this condition was also called Gibert's disease. His best known written work on skin diseases is a tome called Traité pratique des maladies spéciales de la peau.
In 1859, with Dr. Joseph Alexandre Auzias-Turenne (1812-1870), Gibert took part in a controversial experiment in which human patients were deliberately infected with syphilis in order to demonstrate the infectious nature of secondary syphilis.
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