Raphaël Blanchard

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French doctor and entomologist (1857-1919)

France DoctorsLived 1857 to 1919 · aged 61

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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.

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1912Officer of the Legion of Honour

1895Knight of the Legion of Honour

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Alexandre Jacques François Brière de Boismont38.2

Joseph-Marie-François Lassone38.2

Jules Germain Cloquet38.2 Henry Meige38.3

Pierre Augustin Béclard38.1

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