- Gaspard Laurent Bayle
Gaspard Laurent Bayle (
August 18 ,1774 - 1816) was a Frenchphysician who was a native ofVernet inProvence . He studied medicine underJean-Nicolas Corvisart (1755-1821), and was a colleague toRené Laënnec (1781-1826). Beginning in 1805 he practiced medicine at the Charité inParis . He was an uncle to physicianAntoine Laurent Bayle (1799-1859).Bayle is remembered for his extensive work in
pathological anatomy , and contributions made in the research ofcancer andtuberculosis . As the result of 900 post-mortem investigations, he described six different types of tuberculosis, which he called ulcerousphthisis , calculous phthisis, cancerous phthisis, tubercular phthisis, glandular phthisis and phthisis withmelanosis . His best known written work was the 1810 "Recherches sur la phthisie pulmonaire" (Research of Pulmonary Tuberculosis). He also penned a treatise on cancerous diseases that was published posthumously in 1833 by his nephew, Antoine Bayle.References
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