Jacques-Joseph Grancher

Jacques -Joseph Grancher ( born September 29, 1843 in FELLETIN ( Creuse ), † July 13, 1907 ) was a French pediatrician.

Life

In 1865 he received his degree in medicine and was from 1868 to 1878 director of a Laboratioriums Pathological Anatomy in Clamart. From 1885 until his death in 1907 he was director of the Hôpital des Enfants Malades in Paris. He also belonged to the Directorate of the Pasteur Institute.

Grancher today is still known for his tuberculosis research. He pioneered the prevention of childhood tuberculosis and represented the isolation and antisepsis in the fight against the disease. In 1897 he published with Jules Comby ( 1853-1947 ) and Antoine Marfan the Traité des maladies de l' enfance. Despite the new findings, the disease remained so widespread that " they are for ubiquitous and therefore inevitable," she stopped and Grancher itself even " for the eradication of Lebensuntüchtigen " for natural necessity.

1885 contributed Grancher and Alfred Vulpian significant contribution that Louis Pasteur 's first successful vaccination against rabies to Joseph Meister, a nine year old boy who was bitten by a rabid dog. 1887 defended Grancher at the request of the Pasteur rabies vaccination before the Académie nationale de Médecine, by quoting the successful survival.