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Laveran

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[lavuh-rahn] / lavəˈrɑ̃ /

noun

  1. Charles Louis Alphonse 1845–1922, French physician and bacteriologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1907.


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“The work is harder, and takes longer” than for most other patients, said Pierre-Yves, head of the intensive care ward at the Laveran Military Training Hospital in Marseille.

From Washington Times • Oct. 9, 2020

At the turn of the twentieth century both Ronald Ross and Alphonse Laveran were separately recognized with the Nobel Prize for their contributions to our understanding of how malaria is transmitted from person to person.

From Scientific American • Jun. 11, 2013

Nov. 6, 1880 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French army surgeon, detects parasites in the blood of malaria patients, which leads him to win the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1907.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 9, 2010

Laveran proved the association of haematozoa with malaria in 1880.

From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William

Laveran, a French physician, counsels it for consumptives, and for nervous thin people in the most diverse climates.

From The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various