title: [From "primitive spleen epithelioma" to Gaucher's disease. Story of a forerunner].
abstract: This report is devoted to Philippe Gaucher's life and career. His MD thesis, presented while he was just an intern, is a quite unfrequent example of the description of a new disease, based on the anatomoclinical study of a single case. Since more than 100 years, its eponym is still used in the international literature.
authors.affiliation: marcel_francis.kahn@club-internet.fr
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Kahn
mesh_terms: D004850:Eponyms; D005602:France; D005776:Gaucher Disease / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D013163:Splenomegaly / Q000266:history