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Henri Gougerot (July 2, 1881 - 1955) was a French dermatologist born in the town of Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine. In 1908 he earned his doctorate from the University of Paris, and shortly afterwards was a professor agrégé at the faculty of medicine. In 1928 he was appointed to the chair of dermatology and syphilology, and became chief physician at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. For his achievements during World War I, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre.

Gougerot is remembered for his work with dermatological disorders. In 1909 he was the first to describe hemisporosis, and with Charles Lucien de Beurmann (1851-1923), he did extensive research of fungal diseases that included pioneer studies of sporotrichosis.

In 1925 he described three separate cases of atrophy of the salivary glands associated with dryness of the eyes, mouth and vagina.^[1] Several years later, Swedish ophthalmologist Henrik Sjögren (1899-1986} wrote a detailed and comprehensive report of the disease in Zur Kenntnis der keratoconjunctivitis sicca. Today this autoimmune disease is known as Sjögren's syndrome, however it is sometimes referred to as "Gougerot-Sjögren syndrome".

Gougerot was a prolific writer of over 2500 articles. He was the publisher of Archives dermato-syphiligraphiques de la clinique de l’hôpital Saint-Louis, and with Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856-1938) and Raymond Jacques Adrien Sabouraud (1864-1938), was editor of Nouvelle Pratique Dermatologique; an eight-volume work on dermatology.

Associated eponym:

• Gougerot's trilogy : A disease with three separate dermatological symptoms that usually affect the thighs and legs. Described by Gougerot in his treatise, Trisymptome atypique. Also known as "Gougerot's disease".

[edit] Selected works

• Mycoses nouvelles: l'hémisporose. Ostéite humaine primitive du tibia due à l'Hémispora Stellata; with Pierre Jean Baptiste Caraven, (1911)
• Les nouvelles mycoses; with Charles Lucien de Beurmann, (1911)
• Les sporotrichoses; with Charles Lucien de Beurmann, (1912)
• Bacillo-tuberculose non folliculaire, (1913)
• Le traitement de la syphilis en clientèle, 1914; 3rd edition, 1927

[edit] See also

• Confluent and reticulated papillomatosis of Gougerot and Carteaud
• Gougerot-Blum syndrome
• Tumid lupus erythematosus

[edit] References

Henri Gougerot @ Who Named It