Paludism de Laveran, Alphonse - 1893

London: The New Sydenham Society, 1893. First English edition (French 1891).

1893 ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON MALARIA BY NOBEL LAUREATE ALPHONSE LAVERAN.

9 3/4 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth binding, covers blindstamped, gilt portrait of Sydenham to front cover, gilt title to spine, all edges stained red, xii, 197, 6 plates (4 chromolithographs by Nicolet after Lavern and 2 heliotypes by Racle), each with facing descriptive text; spine ends frayed, corners worn, binding tight, pages crisp and clean, very good.

CHARLES LOUIS ALPHONSE LAVERAN (1845 - 1922) was a French physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as his profession. He obtained his medical degree from University of Strasbourg in 1867. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he joined the French Army. At the age of 29 he became Chair of Military Diseases and Epidemics at the École de Val-de-Grâce. At the end of his tenure in 1878 he worked in Algeria, where he made his major achievements. He discovered that the protozoan parasite Plasmodium was responsible for malaria, and that Trypanosoma caused trypanosomiasis or African sleeping sickness. In 1894 he returned to France to serve in various military health services. In 1896 he joined Pasteur Institute as Chief of the Honorary Service, from where he received the Nobel Prize. He donated half of his Nobel prize money to establish the Laboratory of Tropical Medicine at the Pasteur Institute. In 1908, he founded the Société de Pathologie Exotique.