Charles Richet

Charles Robert Richet (born 25 or August 26, 1850 in Paris, † December 4, 1935 ) was a French physician who in 1913 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Life

Richet was born in 1850 as son of Alfred Richet, Professor at the Faculty of Clinical Surgery in Paris, and his wife Eugenie.

His studies in Paris, he graduated in 1869 with a doctorate in medicine from. Another doctorate in natural sciences, he received in 1878. In 1887 he was appointed Professor of Physiology at the Medical Faculty of Paris. He was editor of the Revue Scientifique (1878-1887), co-editor of the Journal de et pathology Générale (from 1917) and president of the Society for Psychical Research ( 1905 ).

Charles Richet died in 1935 at the age of 85 years in Paris.

Private life

In 1877 he married Amélie Aubry, with whom he had five sons and two daughters. His son Charles was like his father, a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris.

Work

Richet was working on a large spectrum of physiological issues. He began his work with research on the regulation of temperature equal to warm animals, especially on the protection against overheating and sweating, the temperature increase during the tremors. In experiments, he was able to show that form in the blood antibodies against pathogens after vaccination and led the first vaccination serum in humans at December 6, 1890 by. He received the Nobel Prize for his research on anaphylaxis, however, that the overreaction of the body for certain substances (see also Allergies ). He applied this concept at first, referring to a response to injected substances or poisons. He was able to show that injected proteins could alter the composition of body fluids, especially blood, immediately and permanently.

In addition to his medical work, he brought great interest for spiritualism and wrote several novels. Also researched Richet in parapsychology. He lived in several séances. Richet transferred the term ectoplasm in parapsychology, by which the substance is to be understood, which flows through the media at meetings of the body openings.

In 1913 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis.

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