Camille-Melchior Gibert

Camille-Melchior Gibert (1797–1866) was a French dermatologist who was a native of Paris. He was an intern to Laurent-Théodore Biett (1781–1840), and later a physician at the Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris. He died during the 1866 Paris cholera epidemic.

Gibert is remembered for providing the first accurate description of a papulosquamous skin disorder that he named pityriasis rosea. Historically this condition was also called "Gibert's disease". His best known written work on skin diseases was a tome called "Traité pratique des maladies spéciales de la peau".

In 1859, with Dr. Joseph Alexandre Auzias-Turenne (1812–1870), Gibert took part in a controversial experiment in which human patients were deliberately infected with syphilis in order to demonstrate the infectious nature of secondary syphilis.

References

• Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology & Venereology (biographical information)