DONNÉ, Alfred François (1801 – 1878)
1801 – 1878
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
1836
#5207
Animalcules observés dans les matières purulentes et le produit des sécrétions des organes génitaux de l’homme et de la femme.
First description of Trichomonas vaginalis, which Donné at first believed to be the pernicious agent in gonorrhoea. He later recognized that the organism is a normal inhabitant of the female genital tract. By this wor…
1842
#864
De l’origine des globules du sang, de leur mode de formation et de leur fin.
Announces the discovery of the blood platelets.
1844 –1845
#267.1
Cours de microscopie. 1 vol. and atlas.
Donne's and Foucault's work was the first biomedical textbook to be illustrated with images made from photomicrographs, in this case daguerreotypes of blood cells. Among its noteworthy images are the first microphotog…