RAYER, Pierre François Olive (1793 – 1867)
1793 – 1867
5 entries in the GMN corpus.
1823
#3881
Observations sur les maladies de l’appendice sus-sphenoïdal (glande pituitaire) du cerveau.
Includes description of pituitary obesity.
1826 –1827
#3989
Traité théorique et pratique des maladies de la peau. 2 vols, and atlas.
In this summary of dermatological literature of the period Rayer first described adenoma sebaceum and xanthoma multiplex. He was the first to differentiate between acute and chronic eczema. The second edition, Paris, …
1837
#5154
De la morve et du farcin chez l’homme.
In this treatise on glanders and farcy in man Rayer showed that glanders is contagious, but is not a form of tuberculosis. Rayer began the work with a thoroughly documented historical chapter. Digital facsimile of the…
1839 –1841
#4208
Traité des maladies des reins. 3 vols, and atlas.
Rayer insisted on the exhaustive analysis of the urine as an aid to the diagnosis of lesions. He classified “albuminus nephritis” into six distinct forms and distinguished these from other forms of nephritis associate…
1850
#5163
Inoculation du sang de rate.
Rayer inoculated sheep with blood of other sheep dead of anthrax. Microscopically he saw the anthrax bacillus in the blood of the inoculated sheep. Rayer was associated with Davaine, who later, in Bull. Acad. Méd., 18…