Charles Philippe Robin

Biography

Of middle-class family, it is largely influenced by his mother, Adelaïde Tardy, whose family counts many doctors. Whereas he is still child, he loses an eye while playing with his classmates, and must carry a prosthesis of glass throughout his life. Its monocular vision probably played a part in its predilection for work under the microscope.

In 1838, it enters to the medical college of Paris, where it is attracted more by the Anatomie and biomedical research that by clinical medicine. It obtains its Doctorat in medicine on August 31st 1846 with a thesis on the anatomy of the nasal area. In 1847, it is received with the aggregation in natural history with its thesis entitled Fermentations . The same year, he becomes science doctor natural.

He is named member of the Académie of medicine in 1858, professor of Histologie in 1862, and member of the Academy of Science in 1866.

During the war of 1870-1871, it directs in province the medical departments of the Armée and founds with Emile Littré the Company of Sociologie in 1871. He is elected Senator in 1876 and votes constantly with the republicans.

It Maria never, carrying out a life based on work. He was a prolific author with more than 300 articles published. He was the first to describe Odium albicans ( Candida albicans ) and contributed to advanced of knowledge in histology, normal and pathological, by introducing in particular the use of the Microscope.

Publications

Of fermentations , thesis for aggregation (1847)
Research on an apparatus which is on fish like the Lines (1847)
Mémoire on the existence of an egg or ovule, in the males as in the females of the plants and the animals, producing, one the spermatozoa or the grains of pollen, the other the primitive cells of the embryo (1848)
Observations on the development of the substance and fabric of the bones
Mémoire on the existence of two new species of anatomical elements in the medullary canal of the bones
Of the microscope and the injections in their application to the anatomy and pathology (1849)
Memory on the anatomy of the tumors érectiles (1850)
Tables of anatomy (1851)
Memory on the distinction using the microscope, of the cerebral matter, albumin, etc (1851)
Treated chemistry anatomical and physiological, normal and pathological , in collaboration with F. Verdeil (3 volumes, 1852-1853)
Treated anatomical and physiological chemistry , in collaboration with F. Verdeil (3 volumes, 1852)
Natural history of the parasitic plants which grow on the man and on the live animals (1853)
Mémoire on fabric heteroadenic (1855)
Mémoire on the objects which can be preserved in microscopic preparations, of the three reigns of nature (1856)
Mémoire containing description anat. - pathol. various species of cataracts capsulaires and lenticular (1859)
Memory on the retraction, the cicatrization and the ignition of the umbilical vessels, etc (1860)
Memory on the modifications of the uterine mucous membrane before and after the pregnancy (1861)
Lessons on the amorphous substances and the blastemas (1866)
Lessons on the substances organized and their deteriorations (1866)
Lessons on moods (1867)
Lessons on the capillary vessels and the ignition (1867)
Microscopic anatomy (1868)
Treated microscope (1871)
cellular Anatomy and physiology (1873). Its most important work.
Dictionary of medicine , in collaboration with Littré (1855)
New Dictionary shortened of medicine (1886)

Sources

Biographical note on www.whonamedit.com
Biographical note on www.cosmovisions.com

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