Ernest Henri Besnier

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Ernest Henri Besnier (April 21, 1831 - May 15, 1909) was a French dermatologist and medicinal director of the Hôpital St. Louis in Paris. He introduced the histopathology and the parasitology to the clinic and invented the biopsy. He was the first to describe the chronic skin change Sarcoidosis and gave it the name lupus pernio. He founded the medical journal Annales de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie along with Pierre Adolphe Adrien Doyon. Besnier is credited with performing comparative studies between the French and Viennese approaches to dermatological medicine, and in 1881 with Doyon, he translated Moritz Kaposi's famous book on skin diseases from German into French (Leçons sur les maladies de la peau).

The eponymous Besnier's prurigo is named after a type of atopic dermatitis that he described.

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• This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.

• Who Named It; Ernest Henri Besnier