Albert Besson

Biography

In 1916, then aspiring after two years of studies to Medical college of Paris, it is seriously wounded with the Fort of Are worth, during the Bataille of Verdun, after having saved several soldiers, and is initially regarded as death.

During its convalescence, it resumes its studies with the Medical college of Paris, and publishes its first work before even the end of the conflict (see below), in relation to the affections due to the wounds of Guerre. Although initially bacteriologist, it supports his thesis of medicine in the service of the professor Joseph Levy-Valensi, Psychiatre, which remained one of his/her closer friends.

Elected official General adviser of the Seine and City council man Paris in 1929, then vice-president of the general advice of the Seine in 1933. For this reason, it is invited by the Polish government with Warsaw where it signs cooperation agreements as regards military medicine.

It returns to medicine in 1936 as a managing director of the laboratories of Hygiène of the Ville of Paris and general inspector of the services of hygiene. It is under hygienist that it is named professor with the special school of architecture of Paris.

In the Fifties, after the discovery of the Vaccine against the Poliomyelitis by his friend the professor Gaston Ramon, Albert Besson was the promoter of the vaccination campaigns against this Maladie, it forced the companies to eliminate the agents Pathogène S from the Eau distributed to the inhabitants of the Paris region, and obtained the vote of a law prohibiting the use of the Klaxon S in the Agglomération S. It was the first to sensitize the authorities with the harmful effects created by the Pollutions air and sound.

Its work

Its principal work, " the hygiene of the dwelling " , the meeting between medicine theorizes and architecture, for tending to the elimination of the wet and obscure unhealthy slums, mediums supporting the proliferation of the pathogenic germs and the epidemic S. It is in that it is a precursor and the vector of a thought which will influence Architecte S like Le Corbusier.

It had applied its theories for construction in 1930, of its house of Audresselles (Pas-de-Calais), which exists still today.

Publications

Several of its works are recorded with the Institut Pasteur, of which:

Questions of hospital hygiene and technique: construction and installation of the hospitals/by Doctor Albert Besson; préf. of Mr. Doctor Dujarric of the River. - Paris: J.B. Baillière and Fils, 1951.
Technical microbiological and serotherapeutic: (pathogenic microbes of the man and the animals); guide of the doctor and the veterinary surgeon for work of laboratory/by Dr. Albert Besson. - 7th ED. ref. and augm. - Paris: J.B. Baillière and Fils, 1920.

A fourth edition of this book can also be found in Universidad de Navarra/Navarra, Spain):

Technical microbiological and serotherapeutic: pathogenic microbes of the man and the animals: guide of the doctor and the veterinary surgeon for work of laboratory/by Albert Besson.

Publicat. Paris: Bookstore J. - B. Baillière and Fils. Edición 4th ED. ref. and augm.

practice of disinfection: guide of the doctor & the hygienist for the rat extermination and desinsectisation, drainage works/Dr. A. Besson and Dr. G. Ehringer. - Paris: Baillière, 1926

Decorations

Officer of the Legion of honor
Military decoration
Military Cross 1914-1918 (2 quotations),
Commander of the orders of Saint-Sava, Ouissam alaouite, Nichan Iftikhar, etc

Relationship

Albert Besson was the father-in-law of the painter Maurice Boitel.

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