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Fournier gangrene

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.

Henri Feulard

In 1886 he became Professor Jean Alfred Fournier's Chief of Clinic (a position in French teaching hospitals that meant being day-to-day head of a department nominally run by a professor), and helped found the dermatological library in the Hôpital Saint-Louis.

Philippe Gaucher

In 1902 he succeeded Jean Alfred Fournier (1832–1914) as the university chair of dermatology and syphilography.

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