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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

In 1880 Laveran, a French army surgeon in Algiers, began to study the blood of such patients microscopically and soon was able to demonstrate the parasite that caused the disease.

From Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases by Doane, Rennie Wilbur

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

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