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Bretonneau

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Bre·ton·neau (br-tô-n), Pierre 1778-1862.
French surgeon who described typhoid and diphtheria and performed the first tracheotomy (1825).
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It was in this context that French physician Pierre Bretonneau (1778-1862) studied the disease and coined the word la diphtherite (Greek for leather, describing the pharyngeal membrane).
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