Albert Touraine


Albert Touraine was a French dermatologist.
He studied medicine at the University of Paris as a pupil of Eugène Apert and Émile Achard. In 1912 he received his doctorate with the thesis Les anticorps syphilitiques : essais de séro-agglutination de la syphilis. In 1932 he was named senior physician at the Hôpital Saint-Louis.
Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is named for him.
Touraine-Solente-Gole syndrome is also named for him.
For eighteen years he was editor of the journal Annales de dermatologie et de syphiligraphie. In 1945 he was elected as a member of the Académie de médecine.