Jacques-Joseph Grancher

Jacques-Joseph Grancher (September 29, 1843- July 13, 1907) was a French pediatrician who was born in Felletin. In 1865 he earned his medical degree, and afterwards was director of a pathological anatomy laboratory in Clamart (1868-1878). From 1885 until his death in 1907 he was director of Hôpital des Enfants Malades in Paris. He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Pasteur Institute.

Grancher is remembered for his research involving tuberculosis. He was a pioneer concerning the creation of safeguards in the prevention of childhood tuberculosis, and was an advocate of isolation and antisepsis in the fight against the disease. In 1897 with Jules Comby (1853-1947) and Antoine Marfan (1858-1942) he published "Traité des maladies de l’enfance" (Treatise of the Diseases of Childhood).

In 1885 Grancher and Alfred Vulpian (1826-1887) were instrumental in convincing Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) to perform the first successful vaccination against rabies on Joseph Meister, a 9-year old boy who had been mauled by a rabid dog. In 1887 at the request of Pasteur, Grancher defended the rabies vaccination to the Academy of Medicine, citing its successful survival rate. [ [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12446976&dopt=Abstract 11 January 1887, the day medicine changed: Joseph ...(Bull Hist Med. 2002) - PubMed Result ] at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

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