Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert
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Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert (1768-1837) was a French dermatologist. Originally planning to enter the priesthood, Alibert didn't begin studying medicine until he was 26 years old.
In 1802 he began his career at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris, where he administered to patients with leprosy, syphilis, and other skin disorders. However, during this period in time, dermatology was unknown as a specific branch of medicine. Alibert used a system of classifying skin diseases, similar to the method Antoine Laurent de Jussieu used in botany. Alibert classified dermatological disorders according to outer appearance, then he divided them into families, generations and species.
Alibert was a prodiguous writer; his best known work being the illustrated Descriptions des maladies de la peau. Also a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma known as Mycosis Fungoides is sometimes referred to as Alibert-Bazin syndrome, and another term for "barber's itch" is Alibert's mentagra.
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