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Dermatology history: University Hospital ‘Saint Louis,’ Paris
The Hospital “Saint Louis” was founded in 1607 by King Henry IV of France to relieve overcrowding of Parisian hospitals during the plague epidemic of 1605-1606. He named it Saint-Louis in memory of his grandfather, King Louis IX.
Today, the Hospital Saint-Louis, a registered historic monument, is used for administrative activities.
Since 1980, a modern building has hosted all the activities of the University Hospital Center, which belongs to the University of Paris 7.
In addition to dermatology, the main departments include hematology and bone marrow transplantation, hemato-oncology, general surgery, endocrinology, gastroenterology, clinical immunology, internal medicine, and nephrology. Saint-Louis Hospital employs 2,500 people, including a medical staff of 1,000. It houses the Institute Inserm U976 – a public research unit that is part of the National Health and Medical Research Institute, which focuses on human immunology, physiopathology and immunotherapy – as well as the René-Touraine Foundation, a private non-profit organization that brings together dermatologists, scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and health authorities to support therapeutic progress in dermatology.
Saint-Louis Hospital is known for its long tradition in hematology; it is the site of the first successful allogeneic bone marrow transplant in 1958, performed by Georges Mathé, MD, Professor Jean Bernard, and one of the recipients of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Professor Jean Dausset. The hospital is known for not only its activity in dermatology care and research (such as oncodermatology and inflammatory diseases) but also its long tradition of teaching in dermatology and venereology.
Over the last four centuries, great physicians have practiced their art here and many professors, and clinicians at Saint-Louis Hospital have authored publications and developed manuals of dermatology that have been translated across five continents. Many diseases and semiology signs in dermatology were first described by physicians from this hospital, their names familiar to dermatologists worldwide: Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, MD; Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, MD; Laurent-Théodore Biett, MD; Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin, MD; Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave, MD; François Henri Hallopeau, MD; Léon Lortat-Jacob, MD; Henri-Alexandre Danlos, MD; Ernest Besnier, MD; Jean Baptiste Emile Vidal, MD; Ferdinand-Jean Darier, MD; Louis Brocq, MD; Bernard Felix Duperrat, MD; Gaston Auguste Milian, MD; Albert Sézary, MD; Achille Civatte, MD; Raymond Sabouraud, MD; Henri Gougerot, MD; Albert Touraine, MD; Arnault Tzanck, MD; and Robert Degos, MD, among others.
The Henri-Feulard library – known as the “Dermatology Wax Museum” – is a fascinating place that houses the world’s largest collection of 4,807 wax casts dedicated to teaching skin diseases and venereal diseases.
The library next to the museum contains numerous outstanding ancient works on dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases, including first issues of dermatology journals from the 19th century and rare dermatology textbooks published in the last 2 centuries.
The recently renovated museum hosts national and international dermatological meetings and is also where the hospital’s dermatology staff meets weekly.
In the dermatology department at Saint-Louis Hospital, patient care is provided in two hospital areas with 18 beds each and a day hospital with 8 beds for patients with inflammatory and dysimmune dermatoses, including a special room with a bathtub for the management of patients with severe genodermatoses. The department is a referral center for genodermatoses and a dedicated center for autoimmune bullous diseases.
Patients with all types of skin tumors, particularly melanomas, carcinomas, sarcomas, and cutaneous lymphomas, are treated at the oncodermatology center, which has a 10-bed day hospital and a very active consultation service. The Saint-Louis Hospital dermatology department is also a National Reference Center for cutaneous lymphomas, providing four Multidisciplinary Consultation Meetings, a national MCM for cutaneous lymphomas, and a multidisciplinary MCM for the diagnosis and treatment of side effects of new targeted therapies and immunotherapies for cancers.
The dermatology polyclinic, an outpatient clinic, provides 54,000 consultations per year. It includes a very active general consultation service, including a wide variety of specialized consultations for atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, hand dermatitis, hidradenitis suppurativa, internal medicine/dermatology, bullous diseases, keloids, angiomas, leprosy, genodermatoses, and medical mycology.
Anonymous, free screening services are available at the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Center through “CeGIDD,” a free center for HIV/AIDS screening and specialized consultations in venereology and mucosal pathologies.
The surgical activity of the department is provided in the Center of Dermo-Surgery. Dedicated medical and paramedical consultations ensure the management of ulcers and therapeutic baths for patients and families with refractory scabies.
The technical platform includes an allergology consultation, a phototherapy center, a Fotofinder diagnosis, a photodynamic therapy unit, and a confocal microscopy unit. The department, completed in September 2019 with a laser center with four devices, also works in close collaboration with the Sabouraud Center, created by Dr. Sabouraud and dedicated to the investigation and treatment of scalp diseases.
We are absolutely aware that working in a hospital so rich in past personalities and discoveries and part of the history of dermatology is not only a huge honor requiring a special commitment to continue the tradition of research and excellence in dermatology initiated hundreds of years ago, but also an important responsibility to focus all our efforts on teaching dermatology to next generations in France and around the world. It is also our responsibility to pursue this historic tradition of excellence by developing dynamic translational research activities that lead to innovations in the field of dermatology.
Professor Bagot is head of the dermatology department of University Hospital Saint-Louis, Paris. Dr. Ionescu is a specialist in dermatology and venereology in the department of dermatology at University Hospital Saint-Louis in Paris and is a member of the Dermatology News editorial board. Write to them at dermnews@mdedge.com.
The Hospital “Saint Louis” was founded in 1607 by King Henry IV of France to relieve overcrowding of Parisian hospitals during the plague epidemic of 1605-1606. He named it Saint-Louis in memory of his grandfather, King Louis IX.
Today, the Hospital Saint-Louis, a registered historic monument, is used for administrative activities.
Since 1980, a modern building has hosted all the activities of the University Hospital Center, which belongs to the University of Paris 7.
In addition to dermatology, the main departments include hematology and bone marrow transplantation, hemato-oncology, general surgery, endocrinology, gastroenterology, clinical immunology, internal medicine, and nephrology. Saint-Louis Hospital employs 2,500 people, including a medical staff of 1,000. It houses the Institute Inserm U976 – a public research unit that is part of the National Health and Medical Research Institute, which focuses on human immunology, physiopathology and immunotherapy – as well as the René-Touraine Foundation, a private non-profit organization that brings together dermatologists, scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and health authorities to support therapeutic progress in dermatology.
Saint-Louis Hospital is known for its long tradition in hematology; it is the site of the first successful allogeneic bone marrow transplant in 1958, performed by Georges Mathé, MD, Professor Jean Bernard, and one of the recipients of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Professor Jean Dausset. The hospital is known for not only its activity in dermatology care and research (such as oncodermatology and inflammatory diseases) but also its long tradition of teaching in dermatology and venereology.
Over the last four centuries, great physicians have practiced their art here and many professors, and clinicians at Saint-Louis Hospital have authored publications and developed manuals of dermatology that have been translated across five continents. Many diseases and semiology signs in dermatology were first described by physicians from this hospital, their names familiar to dermatologists worldwide: Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, MD; Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, MD; Laurent-Théodore Biett, MD; Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin, MD; Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave, MD; François Henri Hallopeau, MD; Léon Lortat-Jacob, MD; Henri-Alexandre Danlos, MD; Ernest Besnier, MD; Jean Baptiste Emile Vidal, MD; Ferdinand-Jean Darier, MD; Louis Brocq, MD; Bernard Felix Duperrat, MD; Gaston Auguste Milian, MD; Albert Sézary, MD; Achille Civatte, MD; Raymond Sabouraud, MD; Henri Gougerot, MD; Albert Touraine, MD; Arnault Tzanck, MD; and Robert Degos, MD, among others.
The Henri-Feulard library – known as the “Dermatology Wax Museum” – is a fascinating place that houses the world’s largest collection of 4,807 wax casts dedicated to teaching skin diseases and venereal diseases.
The library next to the museum contains numerous outstanding ancient works on dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases, including first issues of dermatology journals from the 19th century and rare dermatology textbooks published in the last 2 centuries.
The recently renovated museum hosts national and international dermatological meetings and is also where the hospital’s dermatology staff meets weekly.
In the dermatology department at Saint-Louis Hospital, patient care is provided in two hospital areas with 18 beds each and a day hospital with 8 beds for patients with inflammatory and dysimmune dermatoses, including a special room with a bathtub for the management of patients with severe genodermatoses. The department is a referral center for genodermatoses and a dedicated center for autoimmune bullous diseases.
Patients with all types of skin tumors, particularly melanomas, carcinomas, sarcomas, and cutaneous lymphomas, are treated at the oncodermatology center, which has a 10-bed day hospital and a very active consultation service. The Saint-Louis Hospital dermatology department is also a National Reference Center for cutaneous lymphomas, providing four Multidisciplinary Consultation Meetings, a national MCM for cutaneous lymphomas, and a multidisciplinary MCM for the diagnosis and treatment of side effects of new targeted therapies and immunotherapies for cancers.
The dermatology polyclinic, an outpatient clinic, provides 54,000 consultations per year. It includes a very active general consultation service, including a wide variety of specialized consultations for atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, hand dermatitis, hidradenitis suppurativa, internal medicine/dermatology, bullous diseases, keloids, angiomas, leprosy, genodermatoses, and medical mycology.
Anonymous, free screening services are available at the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Center through “CeGIDD,” a free center for HIV/AIDS screening and specialized consultations in venereology and mucosal pathologies.
The surgical activity of the department is provided in the Center of Dermo-Surgery. Dedicated medical and paramedical consultations ensure the management of ulcers and therapeutic baths for patients and families with refractory scabies.
The technical platform includes an allergology consultation, a phototherapy center, a Fotofinder diagnosis, a photodynamic therapy unit, and a confocal microscopy unit. The department, completed in September 2019 with a laser center with four devices, also works in close collaboration with the Sabouraud Center, created by Dr. Sabouraud and dedicated to the investigation and treatment of scalp diseases.
We are absolutely aware that working in a hospital so rich in past personalities and discoveries and part of the history of dermatology is not only a huge honor requiring a special commitment to continue the tradition of research and excellence in dermatology initiated hundreds of years ago, but also an important responsibility to focus all our efforts on teaching dermatology to next generations in France and around the world. It is also our responsibility to pursue this historic tradition of excellence by developing dynamic translational research activities that lead to innovations in the field of dermatology.
Professor Bagot is head of the dermatology department of University Hospital Saint-Louis, Paris. Dr. Ionescu is a specialist in dermatology and venereology in the department of dermatology at University Hospital Saint-Louis in Paris and is a member of the Dermatology News editorial board. Write to them at dermnews@mdedge.com.
The Hospital “Saint Louis” was founded in 1607 by King Henry IV of France to relieve overcrowding of Parisian hospitals during the plague epidemic of 1605-1606. He named it Saint-Louis in memory of his grandfather, King Louis IX.
Today, the Hospital Saint-Louis, a registered historic monument, is used for administrative activities.
Since 1980, a modern building has hosted all the activities of the University Hospital Center, which belongs to the University of Paris 7.
In addition to dermatology, the main departments include hematology and bone marrow transplantation, hemato-oncology, general surgery, endocrinology, gastroenterology, clinical immunology, internal medicine, and nephrology. Saint-Louis Hospital employs 2,500 people, including a medical staff of 1,000. It houses the Institute Inserm U976 – a public research unit that is part of the National Health and Medical Research Institute, which focuses on human immunology, physiopathology and immunotherapy – as well as the René-Touraine Foundation, a private non-profit organization that brings together dermatologists, scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and health authorities to support therapeutic progress in dermatology.
Saint-Louis Hospital is known for its long tradition in hematology; it is the site of the first successful allogeneic bone marrow transplant in 1958, performed by Georges Mathé, MD, Professor Jean Bernard, and one of the recipients of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine, Professor Jean Dausset. The hospital is known for not only its activity in dermatology care and research (such as oncodermatology and inflammatory diseases) but also its long tradition of teaching in dermatology and venereology.
Over the last four centuries, great physicians have practiced their art here and many professors, and clinicians at Saint-Louis Hospital have authored publications and developed manuals of dermatology that have been translated across five continents. Many diseases and semiology signs in dermatology were first described by physicians from this hospital, their names familiar to dermatologists worldwide: Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert, MD; Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol, MD; Laurent-Théodore Biett, MD; Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin, MD; Pierre Louis Alphée Cazenave, MD; François Henri Hallopeau, MD; Léon Lortat-Jacob, MD; Henri-Alexandre Danlos, MD; Ernest Besnier, MD; Jean Baptiste Emile Vidal, MD; Ferdinand-Jean Darier, MD; Louis Brocq, MD; Bernard Felix Duperrat, MD; Gaston Auguste Milian, MD; Albert Sézary, MD; Achille Civatte, MD; Raymond Sabouraud, MD; Henri Gougerot, MD; Albert Touraine, MD; Arnault Tzanck, MD; and Robert Degos, MD, among others.
The Henri-Feulard library – known as the “Dermatology Wax Museum” – is a fascinating place that houses the world’s largest collection of 4,807 wax casts dedicated to teaching skin diseases and venereal diseases.
The library next to the museum contains numerous outstanding ancient works on dermatology and sexually transmitted diseases, including first issues of dermatology journals from the 19th century and rare dermatology textbooks published in the last 2 centuries.
The recently renovated museum hosts national and international dermatological meetings and is also where the hospital’s dermatology staff meets weekly.
In the dermatology department at Saint-Louis Hospital, patient care is provided in two hospital areas with 18 beds each and a day hospital with 8 beds for patients with inflammatory and dysimmune dermatoses, including a special room with a bathtub for the management of patients with severe genodermatoses. The department is a referral center for genodermatoses and a dedicated center for autoimmune bullous diseases.
Patients with all types of skin tumors, particularly melanomas, carcinomas, sarcomas, and cutaneous lymphomas, are treated at the oncodermatology center, which has a 10-bed day hospital and a very active consultation service. The Saint-Louis Hospital dermatology department is also a National Reference Center for cutaneous lymphomas, providing four Multidisciplinary Consultation Meetings, a national MCM for cutaneous lymphomas, and a multidisciplinary MCM for the diagnosis and treatment of side effects of new targeted therapies and immunotherapies for cancers.
The dermatology polyclinic, an outpatient clinic, provides 54,000 consultations per year. It includes a very active general consultation service, including a wide variety of specialized consultations for atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, hand dermatitis, hidradenitis suppurativa, internal medicine/dermatology, bullous diseases, keloids, angiomas, leprosy, genodermatoses, and medical mycology.
Anonymous, free screening services are available at the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Center through “CeGIDD,” a free center for HIV/AIDS screening and specialized consultations in venereology and mucosal pathologies.
The surgical activity of the department is provided in the Center of Dermo-Surgery. Dedicated medical and paramedical consultations ensure the management of ulcers and therapeutic baths for patients and families with refractory scabies.
The technical platform includes an allergology consultation, a phototherapy center, a Fotofinder diagnosis, a photodynamic therapy unit, and a confocal microscopy unit. The department, completed in September 2019 with a laser center with four devices, also works in close collaboration with the Sabouraud Center, created by Dr. Sabouraud and dedicated to the investigation and treatment of scalp diseases.
We are absolutely aware that working in a hospital so rich in past personalities and discoveries and part of the history of dermatology is not only a huge honor requiring a special commitment to continue the tradition of research and excellence in dermatology initiated hundreds of years ago, but also an important responsibility to focus all our efforts on teaching dermatology to next generations in France and around the world. It is also our responsibility to pursue this historic tradition of excellence by developing dynamic translational research activities that lead to innovations in the field of dermatology.
Professor Bagot is head of the dermatology department of University Hospital Saint-Louis, Paris. Dr. Ionescu is a specialist in dermatology and venereology in the department of dermatology at University Hospital Saint-Louis in Paris and is a member of the Dermatology News editorial board. Write to them at dermnews@mdedge.com.