Ernest Mosny

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Ernest Mosny (4 January 1861 – 25 April 1918) was a French physician and hygienist born in La Fère, Aisne.[1]

Mosny served as médecin des hopitaux in Paris, and was a member of the Académie de Médecine and the Conseil supérieur d'hygiène.

He is remembered for his work in the field of microbiology. With Joaquín Albarrán (1860-1912) he performed a series of tests in an attempt to find an antidote to the colon bacillus. Eventually the two scientists developed a vaccine that achieved a high degree of immunity in dogs and rabbits.[2][3] In 1912 with biologist Edouard Dujardin-Beaumetz (1868-1947), he studied the effects of bubonic plague in two Alpine marmots during hibernation. Reportedly, the marmots were able to survive 61 & 115 days after being injected with the disease.[4][5]

In 1911 Mosny reported the first successful embolectomy, a direct arterial surgical procedure that was performed on the femoral artery.[6]

Written works

With pathologist Paul Brouardel (1937-1906) and others, he was co-author of the multi-volume Traité d'hygiène. Other principal works by Mosby include:

  • Note sur une pseudo-tuberculose du lièvre, 1891
  • Broncho-pneumonie, 1892 (bronchopneumonia)
  • La Peste, 1897 (The plague)
  • La protection de la santé publique, 1904 (The protection of public health).
  • Méningite saturnine subaigüe avec hémiparésie motrice passagère, 1911 (with François Saint-Girons).

References

  1. ↑ Académie Nationale de Médecine
  2. ↑ Therapeutic gazette edited by William Brodie, et al
  3. ↑ Albert Besson. Practical bacteriology, microbiology and serum therapy
  4. ↑ Mental Plague in Tarabagans
  5. ↑ Hosts of the infection, Rodents and lagomorphs
  6. ↑ Surgery: basic science and clinical evidence by Jeffrey A. Norton
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