Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq

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birth_date = February 1, 1856
birth_place = Laroque-Timbaut, Lot-et-Garonne
death_date = December 18, 1928
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work_institutions = Hospice la Rochefoucauld Hôpital Saint-Louis
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known_for = keratosis pilaris parapsoriasis
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influences = Jean Alfred Fournier Jean Baptiste Emile Vidal Ernest Henri Besnier psoriasis
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Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq (February 1, 1856 – December 18, 1928) was a French dermatologist who was born in Laroque-Timbaut, a village in the department of Lot-et-Garonne. He practiced medicine in Paris at the Hospice la Rochefoucauld, the Hôpital Broca, and from 1906 to 1921, the Hôpital Saint-Louis. As a young physician he studied and worked with Jean Alfred Fournier (1832-1915), Jean Baptiste Emile Vidal (1825-1893) and Ernest Henri Besnier (1831-1909). Brocq provided early, comprehensive descriptions of numerous skin disorders, including keratosis pilaris, parapsoriasis and a form of dermatitis called "Duhring-Brocq disease" (named with Louis Adolphus Duhring), which is also referred to as dermatitis herpetiformis. Other eponymous skin diseases named after him are "Brocq's pseudopelade", which involves progressive scarring of the scalp, and "Brocq-Pautrier angiolupoid", a specific type of sarcoidosis of the skin that is named in conjunction with Dr. Lucien-Marie Pautrier (1876-1959). Brocq is also credited for developing a tar solution used for the treatment of psoriasis.

In 1900, Brocq published the first French encyclopedia of dermatology; a four-volume treatise named "Pratique Dermatologigue".

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* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/80.htm "Louis Brocq"] @ Who Named It
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title=Pyoderma gangrenosum is 100 years old. From Louis Brocq to biotherapies
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