Alfred Hardy (dermatologist)


Alfred Louis Philippe Hardy was a French dermatologist.
In 1836 he received his medical doctorate in Paris, where in 1839 he became chef de clinique under Pierre Fouquier at the Hôpital de la Charité. In 1847 he obtained his agrégation at the faculty of medicine in Paris, and four years later, succeeded Jean Guillaume Auguste Lugol as chef de service at the Hôpital Saint-Louis. For several years he held classes in dermatology at the hospital. In 1867 he succeeded Jules Béhier as chair of internal pathology at the university, and in 1876 attained the chair of clinical medicine at Hôpital Necker.
In 1867 he became a member of the Académie de médecine. In 1889 he served as president of the First International Congress of Dermatology and Syphilography.

Published works

In 1868 he published , one of the first books on dermatology to use photography.