Hyacinthe Vincent

Hyacinthe Jean Vincent (December 22nd 1862 with Bordeaux - November 23rd 1950 with Paris) is a doctor French. He is mainly known for his work on the Typhoid fever and the gas Gangrène.

Biography

Hyacinthe Vincent is the son of a merchant butcher of Bordeaux installed Portal course in Bordeaux, Gustave Vincent, and of Anne Monbourguet. The Vincent family is an old family of the Top-of-Gironde in the area of Lapouyade.

General doctor inspector of the army, it is affected at the Military academy of the dey of Algiers. Hyacinthe Vincent discovers there the bacillus Fusiformis fusiformis which, associated with spirilles, is at the origin of the ulcéro-membranous angina, generally unilateral, called “angina of Vincent”.

Qualified schoolteacher with the Valley-of-Grace and the Collège de France, holder of the pulpit of epidemiology, it successfully vaccinates, in 1912, thanks to his éthérovaccin, the French quota of North Africa against the typhoid one. During the First World War, it imposes vaccination T.A.B. (vaccinination against the typhoid one and paratyphoids has and B) and saves the French Army by removing almost completely the cases of typhoid fever. The marshals Joffre and Foch pay homage to him. Member of the Academy of medicine, it is elected member of the Academy of Science in 1922.

Jean Hyacinthe Vincent is buried in Paris with the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise.

Its discoveries

He discovers several vaccines, in particular those against the typhoid one and the gas gangrene. Sir Almroth Edward Wright in England (1896), Andre Chantemesse and Hyacinthe Vincent in France (1909), develop vaccination against the typhoid fever. It is applied to the man by Wright in 1896 and, since 1910, Vincent begins the vaccination of the French Army with a triple vaccine with ether, vaccinating at the same time against the typhoid fever and against the fevers paratyphoids has and B. This vaccination, made compulsory in the French Army by the law of March 28th, 1914, practically makes disappear all the typhoidal cases of affections.

It describes the “angina of Vincent”, angina unilateral, ulcerous (or pseudo-membranous) with fuso-spirilles (synonymous: Angina of Vincent; Gingivite of Vincent; Gingivite necrosing; Ulcerous Gingivite; Ulcerous Gingivite necrosing; Ulceronecrotic Gingivite; Disease of Vincent; Ulcerous stomatitis).

Decorations

Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Military decoration.
Quoted with the Order of the Nation.

Homages

A stamp was published with its effigy in 1962 by the P.T.T. Several streets, places, hospitals, medical colleges (Bordeaux) bear its name.

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