Raphaël Blanchard

French doctor and entomologist (1857-1919) · France · On the map · Doctors · Died at 61

Raphaël Anatole Émile Blanchard was a French physician and naturalist who was a pioneer of medical zoology, with studies on parasites ranging from protozoa to worms and insects.

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Caricature titled "A hunter offering a French gentleman three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing L. Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an Anglo-French tropical medicine conference", watercolour by Munro Scott Orr after, 1913. Blanchard had written on steatopygy in African women in 1883 considering it atavistic following the scientific ideas of the period.

Awards

Officer of the Legion of Honour1912

Knight of the Legion of Honour1895

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