Hulusi Behçet

Hulusi Behçet ( born February 20, 1889 in Istanbul, † March 8, 1948 ) was a Turkish dermatologist and the name of the Father Adamantiades - Behçet.

Biography

Behçet completed his medical studies in 1910 at the Medical Academy of Gulhane in Istanbul and worked in the dermatology clinic of the Academy until he was appointed in July 1914 to the military hospital in Kırklareli as Vice - Chief Physician. During World War II he worked at the military hospital in Edirne as a dermatologist. After the war he first worked in Budapest ( August 1918 ), then at the Charité in Berlin. He returned in October 1919 back to Turkey.

After working for a while independently, he was first appointed in 1923 in the dermatological clinic of the hospital Guraba as chief physician to the Hasköy hospital for venereal diseases and 6 months later as a senior physician. After university reform of 1933, he was appointed as a professor in the Department of Dermatology and Syphilis. He was the first person in the Turkish Academy after the reform, which was awarded a title of professor. He became internationally known through his work on Behcet's Disease. In 1939 he became full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Istanbul University.

Effect

In 20s Behçet worked on the skin leishmaniasis and defined the other hand, a kind of Akaridose, which is caused by the mite Pediculoides ventricosus. He categorized the types of mites.

In the 30 years he worked on the figs caused by phototoxic dermatitis. At international conferences, he made this type of dermatitis that was among the people who work in agriculture, widespread in the Balkans and Western Anatolia, also known in the West. About it he published many scientific articles. With these releases, he became known internationally and was invited to the editorial offices of international scientific journals, such as the weekly magazine of Dermatology and Medical world.

In 1937, he diagnosed for the first time a disease that is characterized by oral and genital aphthous ulcers and pus in the anterior chamber. This disease was named in 1947 in the medical congress in Geneva to the proposal from Prof. Mischner as Behcet's disease.