The most historically prominent sufferers from this condition may have been Herod the Great, his grandson Herod Agrippa, and possibly the Roman emperor Galerius.
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It was first described by Baurienne in 1764 and is named after a French venereologist, Jean Alfred Fournier following five cases he presented in clinical lectures in 1883.
Gangrene | Pierre Simon Fournier | Alain-Fournier | Vernel Fournier | Pierre Fournier | Jean Alfred Fournier | gangrene | Daniel Fournier | Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier | Jean-Marc Fournier | François Fournier-Sarlovèze | Andrew Fournier | Alain Fournier | Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant | Jean-François Fournier | Frank Fournier |