TY - JOUR T1 - HEnri hallopeau (1842-1919) Y1 - 1969/03/31 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1969.03150260091016 JO - JAMA SP - 2431 EP - 2432 VL - 207 IS - 13 N2 - François Henri Hallopeau was first a student of the nervous system, later a general pathologist and, only in his prime, was attracted to diseases of the skin, becoming one of the outstanding members of the French school of dermatology of the 19th century.1 He studied at the Condorcet Lycée and matriculated at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris in 1864. Following an internship at the hospitals of Paris, he presented a doctoral thesis on diseases of the spinal cord and, continuing an interest in neurologic disorders, published communications on diffuse myelitis and bulbar paralysis. He was affiliated initially with the hospitals of Tenon and St. Antoine and ultimately became physician to Hôpital Saint-Louis in 1884, which was devoted exclusively to the care of patients with diseases of the skin. This was a decisive year: his Elementary Treatise on General Pathology and Pathological Physiology appeared,2 he achieved professorial status at SN - 0098-7484 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1969.03150260091016 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03150260091016 ER -